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Rural Asia has made great strides in terms of quality of life improvements in recent decades. Yet, much remains to be done. Huge pockets of abject poverty persist. Extreme gender inequality continues to exist. This can change.
This book's message to policymakers is that they have an extraordinary opportunity to secure a bright future for rural Asians by
- investing in health, education, and rural infrastructure
- establishing institutions to promote rural economic growth
- seizing the opportunities presented by a rapidly changing world
Copublished with ADB by Oxford University Press. 310 pages.
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Contents, Foreword and Preface [ PDF: 38kb | 13 pages ]
- The Quality of Life [ PDF: 34kb | 11 pages ]
- Focus of the Study
- Structure
- Research Strategy
- Determination of the Quality of Life [ PDF: 92kb | 32 pages ]
- Defining the Quality of Life
- The Measurement of QOL
- Quantitative and Qualitative Measures
- Domains of QOL: Outcomes, Opportunities, and Agency
- Individual and Group Measures
- The Uses of Indicators
- Making Compromises
- QOL Framework
- Negative Indirect Links
- Positive Indirect Effects
- Virtuous and Vicious Cycles
- The Institutional Context
- Policy versus Implementation
- Rural QOL and Urban and Global Economies
- Rural and Urban Labor Markets
- Rural–urban Migration
- Global Links
- The Asian Financial and Economic Crisis: A Case Study
- The Extent and Impact of the Crisis
- The Impact of the Crisis in Rural Areas
- Institutions and the Crisis
- Conclusion
- Patterns and Trends in the Quality of Life in Rural Asia [ PDF: 196kb | 48 pages ]
- Data and Methodology
- Nature of the Data
- QOL Indicators
- Comparisons
- Defining ‘Rural’
- Rural Measures
- Statistical Tools
- Direct Measures of QOL in Rural Areas
- Rural Problems
- Quantitative Analysis of QOL in Rural Asia
- Graphical Results
- Cross-country Regression Results
- Trends in QOL
- Qualitative Discussions of QOL in Rural Asia
- Qualitative Methodology
Rural Asia Focus Groups The Role of Infrastructure The Importance of EducationPolitical and Economic ParticipationQOL Deterioration Fine-grain Analysis
- Conclusion
- The Importance of Institutions [ PDF: 105kb | 39 pages ]
- The Nature of Institutions
- Defining Institutions
- Institutions, Policy, and Implementation
- Institutional Quality and QOL Outcomes
- Quantitative Analysis
- Civil Society, Social Capital, and Trust
- Civil Society and Asia
- Coping With Adversity: A Case Study of Flooding in Bangladesh
- Flooding in Bangladesh
- The 1998 Floods
- Human Rights: The Importance of Implementation Debt Bondage and Caste
- Gender Agenda
- Health
- Education
- Work
- Kinwork
- Gender Attitudes in Rural Areas
- Obstacles to Equality
- Conclusion
- Strategies and Instruments for Improving Rural Quality of Life [ PDF: 134kb | 50 pages ]
- Income Generation
- The Income-QOL Relationship
- Poverty Alleviation
- Infrastructure
- Urban versus Rural Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Changes Over Time
- Policies for Infrastructure Development and Investment
- Energy
- Patterns of Energy Use in Rural Areas
- Is There an Energy–Demography–Poverty Trap?
- Improving Rural QOL by Addressing Energy Problems
- Tackling the Biomass–Poverty Trap
- Developing New Sources of Energy in Rural Areas
- Provision of Social Services
- Social Progress
- The Role of Government
- Social Insurance
- Microfinance
- Grameen Bank
- Bank Rakyat Indonesia
- Evaluating the Two Models
- Land Reform
- Land Redistribution
- Tenancy Reform
- The Effectiveness of Land Reform
- Conclusion
- Prospects and Challenges [ PDF: 109kb | 38 pages ]
- The Demographic Challenge
- Rural versus Urban Population Growth
- Strategies to Control Fertility
- Old-age Provision
- New Solutions for Old People
- Gender Equity
- The Threat of HIV/AIDS
- The Asian Epidemic
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on QOL
- Opportunities for Action
- Prevention and Treatment
- The Context of Development in Rural Asia
- Globalization
- Democratization
- Decentralization
- Information Technology
- Conclusion
- The Policy Environment [ PDF: 24kb | 9 pages ]
- The Main Actors
- The Role of Government
- The Role of the Private Sector
- The Role of NGOs
- The Role of the International Development Community
- A New Agenda
References [ PDF: 68kb | 20 pages ]
Appendixes and Author Index [ PDF: 515kb | 59 pages ]
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Study of Rural Asia: Volume 4 - The Quality of Life in Rural Asia by David E. Bloom, Patricia H. Craig and Pia N. Malaney
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