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245 0 _aSpatial disparities in human development: perspectives from Asia/
_cedited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan.
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bBookwell,
_c2006.
300 _axxii, 322 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aList of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors xiv Foreword xvii Anthony Shorrocks Acknowledgements xix List of abbreviations xxi 1 Spatial disparities in human development: An overview of the Asian evidence 1 Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan Part I: Methodological issues 7 2 Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: What is the loss in precision? 9 Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch 3 A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia 36 Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks 4 Trade liberalization and spatial inequality: A methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective 64 Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp Part II: Inequality in Asia 87 5 Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform and openness 89 Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang 6 Income inequality in rural China: Regression-based decomposition using household data 115 Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou 7 Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China 133 John Knight, Li Shi and Zhao Renwei 8 Industrial location and spatial inequality: Theory and evidence from India 158 Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty 9 Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal 188 S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates 10 Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: An exploratory analysis 207 Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa 11 Spatial inequality and development in central Asia 233 Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret Part III: Poverty in Asia 271 12 Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India 273 Shatakshee Dhongde 13 Commune-level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia 289 Tomoki Fujii Index 315
650 _aAsia
650 _aEconomic history--Regional disparities
650 _aIncome distribution
650 _aPoor
650 _aEquality
700 _aKanbur, Ravi ed.
700 _aVenables, Anthony J ed.
700 _aWan, Guanghua ed.
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