The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
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贫困经济学：历史、衡量和政策
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2015
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M. Ravallion
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不可否认，过去200年来，世界在消除绝对贫困方面取得了巨大进展，但直到最近，大部分进展都是在富裕国家取得的。好消息是，我们看到近年来发展中国家在消除贫困方面取得了更大的进展事实上，消除极端贫困的速度比富裕国家在100年或更长时间的经济发展中所取得的进展还要快。然而，继续取得进展还远未得到保证。严重和不断加剧的不平等阻碍了许多国家消除贫穷的进展。近几十年来，我们看到整个富裕世界的相对贫困普遍上升。即使在发展中国家，在帮助最贫困人口方面也进展不大，他们有可能被抛在后面，新兴中产阶级中的许多人仍然非常容易重新陷入贫困。贫困经济学努力支持知情的努力，以制定有效的政策，确保在减少贫困的所有方面继续取得成功。这本书批判性地回顾了世界各地过去和现在关于经济发展的核心政策问题的辩论。有多少贫困？贫困为什么存在？如何消除贫困？Martin Ravallion提供了关于这些问题的现有知识的可访问的新综合。它并不假定读者已经了解经济学。那些经济学新手在理解它的概念和方法的过程中得到了沿着很多帮助。尽管经济学与真实的世界问题相关，但它仍然存在，全球贫困问题既是中心焦点，也是学习的工具。在OSO中可用：
While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years, until recent times the bulk of that progress had been made in wealthy countries only. The good news is that we have seen greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme poverty than the rich world saw over a period of 100 years or more of economic development. However, continuing progress is far from assured. High and rising inequality has stalled progress against poverty in many countries. We are seeing generally rising relative poverty in the rich world as a whole over recent decades. And even in the developing world, there has been less progress in reaching the poorest, who risk being left behind, and a great many people in the emerging middle class remain highly vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Economics of Poverty strives to support well-informed efforts to put in place effective policies to assure continuing success in reducing poverty in all its dimensions. The book reviews critically the past and present debates on the central policy issues of economic development everywhere. How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist? What can be done to eliminate poverty? Martin Ravallion provides an accessible new synthesis of current knowledge on these issues. It does not assume that readers know economics already. Those new to economics get a lot of help along the way in understanding its concepts and methods. Economics lives though its relevance to real world problems, and here the problem of global poverty is both the central focus and a vehicle for learning. Available in OSO: