Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Selected ASEAN Member Countries
Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Selected ASEAN Member Countries Examining the impact of revenues from the tourism sector on poverty reduction in selected members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, is the primary objective of this study. The Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS) model and the regression […]
Experience in Poverty Reduction in the World and Lesson for Vietnam
Experience in Poverty Reduction in the World and Lesson for Vietnam Vietnam is a country that is considered to have certain successes in poverty reduction. However, poverty is still very concerned and is always one of the hot issues of society. Through the study of documents, this article aims to learn about effective poverty reduction […]
The Impact of Microfinance on Poverty and Income Inequality in Developing Countries
The Impact of Microfinance on Poverty and Income Inequality in Developing Countries Economic growth in developing countries provides an opportunity to accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially on a slight decline in inequality. However, in reality, the number of people living in extreme poverty remains unacceptably high. Utilising the experiences of […]
World Development Report 2021: Data For Better lives
World Development Report 2021: Data For Better lives Today’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in […]
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 – Reversals of Fortune
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 – Reversals of Fortune INTRODUCTION The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. For more than two decades, extreme poverty was steadily declining. Now, for the first time in a generation, the quest […]
Why is Africa “rich” yet still “poor”?
Going back to the 1970s a bit, many African countries had the same GDP as Asian countries after they were devastated by wars and exploited by colonialists. After only 30-40 years, Asia developed vigorously while Africa was left far behind. Up to today, many African countries, especially those in the sub-Saharan region, remain at the […]
Dead aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa
Book review: MOYO, D. (2009). Dead aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Over the past 50 years, rich countries have provided more than one trillion dollars for Africa in order to promote the development of this continent. Does such a […]
Migration and Poverty: Toward Better Opportunities for the Poor
Migration and Poverty: Toward Better Opportunities for the Poor Murrugarra, Edmundo; Larrison, Jennica; Sasin, Marcin, The World Bank (2011) Migration has historically been a source of opportunities for people to improve their lives and those of their families. Today, the large differences in income between places-particularly countries-continue to motivate individuals to escape poverty through migration. […]
Poverty Reduction in Vietnam: Achievements and Challenges
Poverty Reduction in Vietnam: Achievements and Challenges In retrospect, Vietnam has indeed gained impressive achievements in poverty reduction. Broad-based economic growth has improved the well-being of almost everyone in the entire population. The General Statistical Office estimates that the poverty rate fell consistently from 58 percent in 1993 to 37.4 percent in 1998, 28.9 percent […]
A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and […]
Made in poverty – The true price of fashion
Made in poverty – The true price of fashion Groundbreaking research conducted by Oxfam has exposed the undeniable truth behind the clothes being sold in shops across Australia: workers are trapped in a cycle of poverty, no matter how hard they work. This research — the first in-depth investigation of its kind into the lives […]
Shock Waves : Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives […]
Poverty in a Rising Africa
Poverty in a Rising Africa Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines, and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising” and an “African 21st century.” Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or […]
Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of Intent
David Henley. (2015). Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of Intent. Zed Books After gaining freedom from colonial rule in the 1960s, Southeast Asian countries were even poorer than sub-Saharan African countries. However, within nearly 50 years Southeast Asian countries have succeeded sub-Saharan Africa in socio-political and economic aspects, achieving the goals of poverty reduction, health, […]
Banker to the poor
Book Review: Banker to the poor Muhammad Yunus (1998) Muhammad Yunus is a Peace Nobel Prize laureate, the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank. He chaired economics at Bangladesh’s Chittagong University. He is the person to popularize microcredit and he is the author of many books on economics, peace, and poverty reduction including Creating […]
