Poverty, Growth and Institutions in Developing Asia

Download or read book Poverty, Growth and Institutions in Developing Asia written by E. Pernia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well. They are critical to explaining differences in social development and poverty reduction across countries and subnational areas that cannot be accounted for by growth alone. The book concludes that a more complete strategy needs to consider various institutional factors at the national and subnational levels to achieve rapid and sustained poverty reduction. Indeed, paying attention to these factors will benefit both growth and poverty reduction.