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Poverty Targeting in Asia by John Weiss; Asian Development Bank Institute is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Poverty Targeting in Asia about?

`This book is a "must read" for researchers and students interested in poverty, poverty reduction, social welfare and development. It provides systematic and comparative studies on the design features, achievements and problems of targeting, set against specific national contexts. The economic focus of the analysis is balanced with sections on the political economy of targeting and management aspects (administrative systems and incentives). While the considerable variations between targeting mechanisms, schemes and contexts demonstrate the difficulties of blanket policy prescriptions, the book presents a fascinating conclusion. Rather than continuing the debate about universal versus targeted approaches, it proposes that a mixed approach might be best: the "broad" targeting of basic services such as primary education and health care combined with the "narrow" targeting of social protection schemes for the very poor.' - David Hulme, University of Manchester, UK Most governments attempt to target resources directly at the poor through a variety of measures including food and credit subsidies, job creation schemes and basic health and education projec

Who reads Poverty Targeting in Asia?

Author

John Weiss; Asian Development Bank Institute

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845429508

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Social Science, Science