Spatial disparities in human development

Spatial disparities in human development perspectives from Asia / [electronic resource] : edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan. - Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2006. - xxii, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spatial disparities in human development : an overview of the Asian evidence / Methodological issues -- Poverty mapping with aggregate census data : what is the loss in precision? / A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia / Trade liberalization and spatial inequality : a methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective / Inequality in Asia -- Fifty years of regional inequality in China : a journey through central planning, reform and openness / Income inequality in rural China : regression-based decomposition using household data / Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China / Industrial location and spatial inequality : theory and evidence from India / Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal / Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines : an exploratory analysis / Spatial inequality and development in Central Asia / Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard Pomfret -- Poverty in Asia -- Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India / Shatakshee Dhongde -- Commune-level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia / Tomoki Fujii. Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan -- Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch -- Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks -- Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp -- Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang -- Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou -- John Knight, Li Shi and Zhao Renwei -- Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty -- S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates -- Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa --


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Poor--Asia--Case studies.
Income distribution--Asia--Case studies.
Equality--Asia.


Asia--Economic conditions--Regional disparities.--1945-


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