Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia: Impacts and Responses to the Global Economic Crisis
 This joint ADB and ADBI book features selected papers from a conference on the social and environmental impact of the global economic crisis on Asia and the Pacific, especially on the poor and vulnerable. The book is designed with the needs of policymakers in mind, utilizing field, country, and thematic background studies to cover a large number of countries and cases.
This publication suggests that the crisis is an opportunity to rethink the model of development in Asia for growth to become more inclusive and sustainable. Issues that need to be more carefully considered include:
- Closing the gap of dualistic labor markets
- Building up social protection systems
- Rationalizing social expenditures
- Addressing urban poverty through slum upgrading
- Promoting rural development through food security programs in pro-poor growth potential areas
- Concentrating climate change interventions on generating direct benefits for the environments of the poor
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The views expressed in this paper are the views of the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute nor the Asian Development Bank. Names of countries or economies mentioned are chosen by the author's, in the exercise of his/her/their academic freedom, and the Institute is in no way responsible for such usage.
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