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Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | New frontiers in regional science: Asian perspectives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Introduction to Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Poverty; 2.1 Regional Disparities and Poverty in the Philippines; 2.2 Decomposition of Poverty in India; 2.3 Rural Poverty and Agriculture in the Philippines; 3 Energy and Climate Change; 3.1 Petroleum Subsidies in Indonesia; 3.2 Energy-Environment-Economic Efficiency in Asian Nations; 3.3 Climate Change and Malaysia; 4 Money and Macroeconomics; 4.1 Market Microstructure and Asian Banks; 4.2 Macroeconomic Performance of Indian States.
- 5 Ageing, Education, Production, and the Internet5.1 Population Ageing in South Korea; 5.2 Educational Attainment and Learning in India; 5.3 Global Production Networks and Penang, Malaysia; 5.4 The Internet in Nepal; 6 Conclusions; References; Part II: Poverty; Spatial Disparitiesand Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines; 1 Introduction; 2 Spatial Economic Disparities across the Philippines; Box 1. Administrative Divisions in the Philippines; 3 A Closer Look at Pangasinan, Eastern Samar, and Maguindanao; 3.1 Distinct Characteristics of the Three Provinces.
- 3.2 Common Characteristics Among the Poor Households3.2.1 Low Skills and Education; 3.2.2 High Vulnerability to Shocks; 3.2.3 Limited Connectivity with Markets; Box 2 Small Entrepreneurs in Isolated Areas Face High Transaction Costs; 3.2.4 Lack of Supporting Policy Environment at the Local Level; 4 Policy Implications; References; Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-2005 and 2009-2010; 1 Introduction; 2 The Method; 3 Data and Analysis; 3.1 Incidence of Poverty; 3.2 Region-Specific Growth, Inequality, and Population Effects.
- 3.3 Within-Group and Between-Group Effects4 Concluding Remarks; Appendix: State, Region-Specific Code and NSS Region of 2005-2005; References; Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four Rice Ecosystems in the Rural Philippines; 1 Sectoral Linkage, Structural Transformation, and Poverty Reduction: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Literature; 2 Poverty and Agricultural Growth in the Four Sample Villages; 2.1 The Four Sample Villages; 2.2 Poverty Reduction and Agricultural Growth in the Four Sample Villages.
- 3 Income Mobility Via Alternative Pathways Out of Rural Poverty3.1 Agricultural vs. Nonagricultural Pathways Out of Rural Poverty; 3.2 Identifying Specific Nonagricultural Pathways; 4 Interpreting the Mobility Patterns Among the Four Sample Villages; 5 Conclusions; References; Part III: Energy and Climate Change; Reducing Petroleum Subsidy in Indonesia: An Interregional General Equilibrium Analysis; 1 Introduction; 2 Debates on Energy Subsidy; 2.1 Industrial Competitiveness and Development; 2.2 Employment Creation; 2.3 Rural Economy and Small Enterprises; 2.4 Fiscal Pressure.