Key Indicators 2004: Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects
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Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2004: Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects is the 35th edition of this flagship annual statistical data book of ADB. It presents the latest available economic, financial, social, environmental, and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicators for regional members of ADB. Data are grouped under MDG and Regional Tables. Nontechnical explanations and brief analyses of the MDG achievements and economic, financial, social, and environmental developments are included. The regional tables are largely based on a comprehensive set of country tables. 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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Foreword, Acknowledgements, Statistical Contacts, Introductory Notes
Part I – Special Chapter – Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects
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
Part II - Regional Tables
- 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 ]
Sources [
PDF: 238kb | 42 pages ]
Definitions [
PDF: 65kb | 8 pages ]
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