Strategies for Alleviating Poverty in Rural Asia: PART THREE: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES: An Evaluation of Selected Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh, by Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad and Mahabub Hossain: 3. Anti-Poverty Policies

Export the current HTML document
in zip format ^Help


Strategies for Alleviating Poverty in Rural Asia (BIDS, ILO; 1985; 346 pages)
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	PART ONE: AN OVERVIEW
		Strategies for Alleviating Poverty in Rural Asia, by Rizwanul Islam and Eddy Lee
			1. The Background: A Summary of Trends in Rural Poverty in Selected Asian Countries
			2. Alternative Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
			3. The State and Poverty Alleviation
			4. An Overview of Selected Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural Asia
				Land policies
				Policies for strengthening the asset-base and increasing the productivity of the poor
				Employment creation schemes
				Other target group oriented programmes
	PART TWO: AN ANALYSIS
		Rural Poverty in Asia: Analysis and Policy Alternatives, by Keith Griffin
			Underdevelopment in an Historical Context
			Domestic Class Structures and the State
			The State and Domestic Policy
			Policy Approaches
				The balance of political power
				The distribution of productive assets
				The distribution of the flow of income
				The pattern of investment
	PART THREE: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
		An Evaluation of Selected Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh, by Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad and Mahabub Hossain
			1. Basic Features of the Bangladesh Economy
			2. Absolute Rural Poverty in Bangladesh - Incidence and Causes²
				2.1 Incidence
				2.2 Causes
			3. Anti-Poverty Policies
				3.1 An overview
				3.2 The food for work programme
				3.3 The Grameen bank¹
			4. Concluding Remarks
		An Evaluation of Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in India, by D. Bandyopadhyay
			1. An Overview of the Situation Regarding Poverty and Income Distribution
			2. General Approach towards Poverty Alleviation in the Sixth Five Year Plan.
			3. Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP): A Programme for Income Generation through Asset Endowment and Skill Formation
			4. Works Programme for the Creation of Supplementary Employment Opportunities: National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
			5. Local Level Administrative Arrangements for the Implementation of Anti-Poverty Programmes.
			6. Role of Organisations of Rural Poor in Promoting Anti-Poverty Programme
		Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural Nepal, by Mahesh Banskota
			1. Introduction
			2. Dimensions of Rural Poverty
				2.1 Food availability and consumption
				2.2 Income levels
				2.3 Employment levels
				2.4 Inequality
				2.5 Consumer durables
			3. Anti-Poverty Targets and Policies: An Overview
			4. The Small Farmer Development Programme
				4.1 Borrowing and repayment
				4.2 Assets and income
				4.3 Access to food
				4.4 Problems and policy implications
		Rural Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies in Pakistan, by M. Shaukat Ali
			1. Some Basic Facts about Rural Pakistan
			2. Rural Poverty
			3. Anti-Poverty Policies
				3.1 Land reforms
				3.2 Rural development programmes
			4. Zakat and Ushr
			5. Conclusions
		Rural Poverty and Operation Land Transfer in the Philippines, by Mahar Mangahas
			1. Economic Policy and the Rural Setting
			2. Techniques of Poverty Monitoring
				2.1 Poverty as undernutrition
				2.2 Poverty as inadequate purchasing power: DAP and World Bank approaches
				2.3 People’s perception of poverty
			3. Operation Land Transfer and Poverty Alleviation
				3.1 Coverage of operation land transfer
				3.2 Intentions of presidential decree no. 27
				3.3 Land reform and agricultural productivity
				3.4 Operation land transfer and farm income
				3.5 Monitoring the benefits from OLT: headcount
				3.6 Monitoring the benefits from OLT: valuation
				3.7 On the new rural stratification
			4. Concluding Remarks
		An Evaluation of Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Poverty in Sri Lanka, by Piyasiri Wickramasekara
			1. Profile of poverty in Sri Lanka
				1.1 Trends in absolute poverty
				1.2 Relative poverty
			2. Overview of Anti-poverty Policies
				2.1 Land policies
				2.2 District integrated rural development programme
				2.3 Target group oriented programmes
				2.4 General minimum needs programmes
			3. Evaluation of Selected Anti-poverty Programmes
				3.1 The food subsidy and the rice ration scheme
				3.2 The food stamp scheme
			4. Concluding Observations
	PART FOUR: PROCEEDINGS OF A REGIONAL SEMINAR
		Proceedings of the Regional Seminar on Monitoring Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural Asia, 7-9 April 1984, Dhaka, Bangladesh
	ANNEX - List of Participants
	BACK COVER

3. Anti-Poverty Policies

[Ukrainian] [English] [Russian]