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Handbook on poverty and inequality
'Handbook on Poverty + Inequality' was originally designed to support training courses in poverty analysis and inequality. The 'Handbook' begins with an explanatory text that includes numerous examples, multiple-choice questions to ensure active learning, and extensive practical exercises that use Stata statistical software. The 'Handbook' will help researchers and evaluators in charge of preparing background materials for Poverty Reducation Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and those responsible for monitoring and evaluating poverty reduction programs and policies. The World Bank Institute has used the 'Handbook' in training workshops in countries from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, to Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, to Malawi and Tanzania, as well as in university courses on poverty and in distance education courses with participants from Asian and African countries. The 'Handbook' has also been used in an online asynchronous course with more than 200 participants worldwide. Using the feedback from these courses, the authors have created a clearly-written text that balances rigor with practicality. The 'Handbook' is designed to be accessible to people with a university-level background in science or the social sciences. It is an invaluable tool for policy analysts, researchers, college students, and government officials working on policy issues related to poverty and inequality.
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF SINGLE-CROP RICE CULTIVATORS (PROFIT, FUNCTION)
The basic question addressed is \"how can a government, with adequate resources behind it, significantly improve the position of a major rural poverty group?\" The group in question consists of approximately 150,000 single-cropping rice cultivating households scattered throughout Peninsular Malaysia. Data on the group comes from a sample survey of 3,825 households conducted between 1976 and 1980. The survey data show that the households in question are indeed very poor, with average per capita incomes of about $500 (Malaysian dollars), although they are probably better off than a decade earlier. While a sixth of income comes from padi cultivation, a quarter comes from other farm crops, a half from off-farm employment, and the rest as unearned income. Income is not constrained by access to or ownership of land. Government transfers and employment conribute about 8% to total rural income. To quantify the impact of alternative government policies on the welfare and behavior of the group, a formal, largely neoclassical, model of the agricultural household is developed and estimated. The structure of production is best represented by a quadratic restricted profit function, and the consumption side by a linear expenditure system; fairly standard wage functions explain off-farm wage rates adequately. Given the aim of improving the welfare of this group, it was found, on the basis of the model estimates, that a higher rice price is of little value, fertilizer subsidies are limited in scope, and land clearance or the introduction of irrigation for double cropping bring very small returns. Direct income transfers, continued urban and industrial growth and the associated migration, and the provision of public goods (education, health, electricity, piped water, roads etc.) are all found to be potent in raising welfare.
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