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This paper analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thirty years. The adjustment policies of the 1980s led to some episodes of rising poverty, but unlike in othe...
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... employment grew much more slowly in South Asia -by only 0.6% p.a. in India (1980-90) and by 2.6% and 2.3% p.a. respectively in Bangladesh and Pakistan. 19 Aggregate formal sector employment (Table 7) failed to keep pace with the growth in the labour force on average in IFI-supported countries for the first period (1981-5), but exceeded the growth in the size of the labour force for the 'other' category for both periods and for the IFI-supported category in the 1986-93 period. However, Sri Lanka showed a very sharp change in direction. ...
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