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 | 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 |