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Key Indicators 2004: Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects

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The Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2004 is the 35th edition of this flagship annual statistical data book of ADB. It features:

• 30 regional tables of socio-economic and financial indicators for 42 developing member countries of ADB.
• 41 country tables, with 18-years time-series on
  
  
  • population
  • labor force and employment
  • national accounts
  • production
  • energy
  • price indices
  • money and banking
  • government finance
  • external trade
  • balance of payments
  • international reserves
  • exchange rates
  • external indebtedness

• a special chapter discussing the various aspects of poverty - "Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects"

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Contents

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Foreword, Acknowledgements, Statistical Contacts, Introductory Notes [ PDF: 81kb | 12 pages ]

Part I – Special Chapter – Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects [ PDF: 408kb | 49 pages ]

1. Introduction

2. Measuring poverty: Theory and practice in Developing Asia

2.1 An overview
2.2 Methods of setting poverty lines
2.3 Comparing poverty across groups and over time: Some issues
2.4 Poverty line construction in selected developing member countries

3. Issues with survey data used to estimate poverty

3.1 General issues
3.2 Adult equivalent scales
3.3 Accuracy of the data collected: Surveys versus national accounts statistics
3.4 Survey design: Choice of recall period

4. Poverty in Developing Asia

4.1 Recent estimates and trends in poverty
4.2 Poverty reduction: Links to growth and distribution

5. Asia’s prospects for reducing poverty

5.1 Estimating poverty in 1990, 2002, and 2015
5.2 The estimates

6. Concluding remarks

Selected references

• Poverty, Inequality and Human Development [ PDF: 60kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 40kb ]
• Education Indicators [ PDF: 68kb | 3 pages ] [ XLS: 66kb ]
• Environment Indicators [ PDF: 53kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 56kb ]
• Health and Nutrition Indicators [ PDF: 63kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 140kb ]
• Mortality and Reproductive Health [ PDF: 65kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 116kb ]
• Population [ PDF: 57kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 34kb ]
• Population by Age Group [ PDF: 53kb |1 page ] [ XLS: 35kb ]
• Labor and Employment by Gender and Economic Activity [ PDF: 65kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 48kb ]
• Agriculture Production [ PDF: 61kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 79kb ]
• Land Use [ PDF: 56kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 55kb ]
• Total and Per Capita GNI [ PDF: 53kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 24kb ]
• Growth Rates of GDP and Major Sectors [ PDF: 65kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 50kb ]
• Shares of Major Sectors in GDP [ PDF: 51kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 39kb ]
• Expenditure Shares in GDP [ PDF: 46kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 293kb ]
• Domestic Saving, Capital Formation, and Resource Gap [ PDF: 50kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 240kb ]
• Inflation Rate [ PDF: 54kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 123kb ]
• Government Finance Indicators [ PDF: 64kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 60kb ]
• Money Supply Indicators [ PDF: 49kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 30kb ]
• Growth Rates of Merchandise Exports, f.o.b. [ PDF: 54kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 166kb ]
• Growth Rates of Merchandise Imports, c.i.f. [ PDF: 58kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 117kb ]
• Direction of Trade: Merchandise Exports [ PDF: 54kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 37kb ]
• Direction of Trade: Merchandise Imports [ PDF: 57kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 37kb ]
• Foreign Trade Indicators [ PDF: 45kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 30kb ]
• Foreign Direct Investment [ PDF: 54kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 46kb ]
• Official Flows From All Sources to DMCs [ PDF: 55kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 24kb ]
• Net Private Flows From All Sources to DMCs [ PDF: 59kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 25kb ]
• Aggregate Net Resource Flows From All Sources to DMCs [ PDF: 54kb | 1 page ] [ XLS: 23kb ]
• International Reserves Indicators [ PDF: 65kb | 2 page ] [ XLS: 41kb ]
• External Debt and Debt Service Payments [ PDF: 62kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 73kb ]
• Debt Indicators [ PDF: 65kb | 2 pages ] [ XLS: 64kb ]

Part III - Country Tables

Pdf version contains data for years 1985, 1990, 1995, and 1999 to 2003.
Xls version contains annual time series for years 1986 to 2003.

• Afghanistan [ PDF: 80kb | 4 pages ] [ XLS: 75kb ]
• Azerbaijan [ PDF: 97kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 112kb ]
• Bangladesh [ PDF: 100kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 122kb ]
• Bhutan [ PDF: 92kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 95kb ]
• Cambodia [ PDF: 97kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 115kb ]
• China, People's Republic of [ PDF: 102kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 323kb ]
• Cook Islands [ PDF: 79kb | 4 pages ] [ XLS: 75kb ]
• Fiji Islands [ PDF: 89kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 102kb ]
• Hong Kong, China [ PDF: 97kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 105kb ]
• India [ PDF: 109kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 123kb ]
• Indonesia [ PDF: 99kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 136kb ]
• Kazakhstan [ PDF: 94kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 109kb ]
• Kiribati [ PDF: 80kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 107kb ]
• Korea, Republic of [ PDF: 98kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 110kb ]
• Kyrgyz Republic [ PDF: 93kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 115kb ]
• Lao People's Democratic Republic [ PDF: 84kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 263kb ]
• Malaysia [ PDF: 99kb | 8 pages ] [ XLS: 236kb ]
• Maldives [ PDF: 82kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 86kb ]
• Marshall Islands [ PDF: 75kb | 4 pages ] [ XLS: 69kb ]
• Micronesia, Federated States of [ PDF: 72kb | 3 pages ] [ XLS: 68kb ]
• Mongolia [ PDF: 100kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 122kb ]
• Myanmar [ PDF: 94kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 212kb ]
• Nepal [ PDF: 95kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 106kb ]
• Pakistan [ PDF: 89kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 113kb ]
• Palau [ PDF: 89kb | 4 pages ] [ XLS: 81kb ]
• Papua New Guinea [ PDF: 90kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 103kb ]
• Philippines [ PDF: 98kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 157kb ]
• Samoa [ PDF: 91kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 100kb ]
• Singapore [ PDF: 101kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 141kb ]
• Solomon Islands [ PDF: 87kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 105kb ]
• Sri Lanka [ PDF: 95kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 118kb ]
• Taipei,China [ PDF: 93kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 111kb ]
• Tajikistan [ PDF: 86kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 105kb ]
• Thailand [ PDF: 98kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 225kb ]
• Timor-Leste [ PDF: 82kb | 4 pages ] [ XLS: 101kb ]
• Tonga [ PDF: 91kb | 6 pages ] [ XLS: 100kb ]
• Turkmenistan [ PDF: 81kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 84kb ]
• Tuvalu [ PDF: 76kb | 4 pages ] [ XLS: 71kb ]
• Uzbekistan [ PDF: 82kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 100kb ]
• Vanuatu [ PDF: 85kb | 5 pages ] [ XLS: 91kb ]
• Viet Nam [ PDF: 98kb | 7 pages ] [ XLS: 360kb ]