Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies - The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

Informationen zum Autor Jomo Kwame Sundaram has been Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) since 2005, and G24 Research Coordinator since 2006. He was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007. Anisuzzman (Anis) Chowdhury is Professor of Economics, University of Western Sydney and currently works as Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary General, UN-DESA. He has published widely on macroeconomic and developmental issues and was founding managing editor (1995-2008) of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. Zusammenfassung This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Integration & Diversification; Institutions and Diversification of the Economies; Trade! Investment and Development in the Western Balkans; International Trade and Economic Diversification;Foreign Direct Investment; Trends and Patterns of FDI; Strengthening Trade Linkages; Business Environment and Economic Performance! Remittances in the CIS; Addressing the Policy Challenges

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• Authors: Anisuzzaman (Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Jomo Kwame Chowdhury Sundaram, U. N. Dept of Economic and Social Affair, United Nations
• Assisted by: Anisuzzaman (Anis) Chowdhury (Editor), Chowdhury Anisuzzaman (Anis) (Editor), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Editor), Sundaram Jomo Kwame (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2011
• EAN: 9781849664172
• ISBN: 978-1-84966-417-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Series: United Nations Series on Devel; The United Nations Series on Development; United Nations Series on Devel
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Poverty & unemployment, Development Studies, Poverty and precarity