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Return to Home Page PUTTING THE POOR FIRST	Description of project
Chapter 1. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES	INEQUALITIES IN DEVELOPMENT
	WHO ARE THE POOR?
	WHAT DOES DEVELOPMENT REQUIRE?
	POVERTY AND DISTRIBUTION
	The definition of poverty
	Quality of life, capabilities
	Income insecurity
	Income and distribution
	Capabilities--Nussbaum's approach
	Three pure strategies
Chapter 2. THE EMPIRICAL CASE	THE COUNTRY DATA SET
	Inferences from income and distribution data
	CASES
	Korea
	India
	China
	Indonesia
	Philippines
	Malaysia
Chapter 3. WHY RURAL POVERTY?	Rural poverty: causes
	How do the rural poor earn their incomes?
Chapter 4. THE NORMATIVE CASE	PHILOSOPHY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY
	THE NORMATIVE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
	A role for justice
	Models and simulations
	Heterogeneous goods
	Heterogeneous goods and the poverty-first dictum
	Intergenerational justice
	Distributive justice in development
	ARGUMENTS FOR THE "POVERTY FIRST" DICTUM
	A welfare argument
	An urgency argument
	A fairness argument
	A human rights argument
	Assessment
	NORMATIVE IMPLICATIONS
	CONCLUSIONS ON NORMATIVE ISSUES
Chapter 5. EXISTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES	DEVELOPMENT ORTHODOXY
	PROPERTY RELATIONS, POLITICAL POWER, AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
	Reflection on the cases
	Entitlements and the social-property system
Chapter 6. CONDITIONS OF ADEQUACY FOR ALTERNATIVES	FEASIBILITY
	INCENTIVE FEASIBILITY
	POLITICAL FEASIBILITY
	ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY
	INTERGENERATIONAL CONSTRAINT
Chapter 7. VIABLE POVERTY-FIRST DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES	ASSET REDISTRIBUTION
	EMPLOYMENT- AND WAGE-INCREASING MEASURES
	AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION
	INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL ASSETS FOR THE POOR
	PUBLIC AMENITIES
	RURAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOCIALIST AGRICULTURE
	AGRARIAN REFORM
	SOCIALIST DEVELOPMENT
	EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES
	ASSESSMENT
Chapter 8. DOMESTIC POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT	WHAT OBSTACLES STAND IN THE WAY OF "POVERTY FIRST" DEVELOPMENT?
	LOCAL POWER AND THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
	TECHNOLOGY, INEQUALITIES, AND PROPERTY RELATIONS
	MORE DEMOCRACY?
	Can broader political participation improve the situation of the poor?
	INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 9. CONCLUSIONS ON THE FUTURE OF POVERTY REFORM STRATEGIES
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