Author: Edwin ShanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Vietnam: Refining policy with the poor
Author: Edwin ShanksRefining Policy with the Poor
Author: Edwin ShanksLabor Markets in Asia
Author: Jesus FelipePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230627382
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
This volume argues that while labour market reforms may be necessary in some specific cases, by no means are labour market policies the main explanation for the widespread increase in unemployment and underemployment across Asia and country specific studies undermine the case for across-the-board labour market reforms.
Moving Toward Universal Coverage of Social Health Insurance in Vietnam
Author: Aparnaa SomanathanPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464802610
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Over the past two decades Vietnam has made enormous progress to expand health insurance coverage to its population. Further progress will require significant additional public financing, as well as efforts improve efficiency and strengthen insurance organization and management. It contains recommendations and next steps for Vietnam to follow.
East Asia and the Trials of Neo-Liberalism
Author: Kevin HewisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317998790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis. These leading contributors tackle the nature of neo-liberalism, and the forces and institutions driving it. With fresh case studies of Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, China and Vietnam, showing how domestic elites are critical to the ways in which the neo-liberal agenda is manifested, modified and rejected. They also engage with the key question of why there has been a dramatic restructuring of state and economic power, with some elements of domestic elites having been decimated, others reinventing themselves, while important new elements have been constituted. This book was previously published as a special issue of the leading Journal of Development Studies.
Civil Society and Poverty Reduction
Author: International Institute for Environment & DevelopmentPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843695509
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Ways Out of Poverty
Author: Michael U. KleinPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Fundamentally, poverty reduction is about bringing growth processes to poor areas. Because poor areas can benefit from technical and organizational innovations made elsewhere in the world, it is possible today to create productive jobs faster and in greater quantity than ever before. The puzzle is what helps spread such "best practices." Saving, investment, education, resources, and new technology are all needed-and fairly easy to obtain. What is hard to obtain are the institutions that allow these factors of production to be combined and translated into productive job creation. Firms are the key vehicles that spread best practices and productive jobs to areas where poor people live. Because we can never be sure which firm will be successful, it is necessary that new firms can enter markets, that substandard firms are allowed to fail, and that good firms face few barriers to growth. This is the definition of competition, and competition is what selects good firms and thus drives the spread of best practice and productive jobs. Governments need to provide the framework in which capable firms can emerge. Yet, the right mix of state activity and how it best interacts with firms are not fully understood. Some selection mechanism, which allows for policy experiments and selects successful ones, is valuable for national, provincial, and local governments. Thus competition among jurisdictions and firms is an integral part of dynamic social systems that hold promise for creating wealth and ending poverty.
Institutional setting for nature-based solutions and REDD+ policies and projects in Viet Nam
Author: Pham, T.T.Vietnam Economic Review
Author: Policy Options for Meeting the Millenium Development Goals in Brazil
Author: Francisco H. G FerreiraPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Ferreira and Leite investigate whether micro-simulation techniques can shed light on the types of policies that should be adopted by countries wishing to meet their Millennium Development Goals. They compare two families of micro-simulations. The first family of micro-simulations decomposes required poverty changes into a change in the mean and a reduction in inequality. Although it highlights the importance of inequality reduction, it appears to be too general to be of much use for policymaking. The second family of micro-simulations is based on a richer model of behavior in the labor markets. It points to the importance of combining different policy options, such as educational expansion and targeted conditional redistribution schemes, to ensure that the poorest people in society are successfully reached. But the absence of market equilibria in these statistical models, as well as the strong stability assumptions which are implicit in their use, argue for extreme caution in their interpretation. This paper--a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand pro-poor policies.