Poverty, Inequality and Rural Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Tim Lloyd, Oliver Morrissey

   Pages 1-10

3. Living Standards in a North Indian Village: An Analysis within the Stochastic Dominance Framework

   • Peter Lanjouw

   Pages 11-32

4. The Causes of Poverty: A Study Based on the Mauritania Living Standards Survey 1989–90

   • Harold Coulombe, Andrew McKay

   Pages 33-66

5. Household Resource Allocation in the Côte d’Ivoire: Inferences from Expenditure Data

   • Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott

   Pages 67-88

6. Is China Egalitarian?

   • J. B. Knight

   Pages 89-99

7. Government Failures and NGO Successes: Credit, Banking and the Poor in Rural Bangladesh, 1970–90

   • J. Allister McGregor

   Pages 100-121

8. Distress Sales and Rural Credit: Evidence from an Indian Village Case Study

   • Wendy Olsen

   Pages 122-137

9. Farm Mechanisation and Rural Development in the Philippines

   • John Lingard

   Pages 138-162

10. Agribusiness, Peasant Agriculture and the State: The Case of Contract Farming in Thailand

    • David Burch

    Pages 163-183

11. Small-Scale Banana Growers in the Windward Islands: External Implications of the Single European Market

    • Robert Read

    Pages 184-207

12. Back Matter

    Pages 208-211

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Poverty alleviation is a major objective of development. More than a fifth of the world's population lives in absolute poverty, and the majority of the poor live in rural areas. This volume studies what can be done for alleviating rural poverty. Four chapters address the measurement of poverty and inequality, including the use of household expenditure surveys and intra-household income distribution. Evidence is presented for India, Mauritania, Cte d'Ivoire and China. Other chapters present case studies on strategies for rural development: provision of rural credit in Bangladesh and India; technical change in Philippine agriculture; contract farming in Thailand; and banana growers in the Windwards. The contributions introduce the problems of rural development and show that effective rural development is assisted by investment in education and secure access to credit; that equity is important for incentives but not directly related to poverty; and that technical and institutional reform are essential, but require careful design and implementation.

• Design
• development
• education
• income distribution
• Institution
• poverty

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Tim Lloyd, Oliver Morrissey

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