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Pathways Out of Poverty

Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Gary S. Fields

    1. Department of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University, USA

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  2. Guy Pfeffermann

    1. International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Role of the Private Sector: Studies and Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reducing Poverty: The Overall Framework

      • Guy Pfeffermann, Gary S. Fields
      Pages 3-11

    3. Escaping from Poverty: Household Income Dynamics in Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela

      • Gary S. Fields, Paul L. Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, David Newhouse
      Pages 13-34

    4. Long-term Economic Mobility and the Private Sector in Developing Countries: New Evidence

      • Gary S. Fields, Walter S. Bagg
      Pages 35-64

    5. Informal Self-Employment: Poverty Trap or Decent Alternative?

      • William F. Maloney
      Pages 65-82

  3. The Private Sector at Work: Cases from Around the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Generating Upward Mobility: The Case of Korea and Private Sector Development

      • Se-Il Park
      Pages 85-103

    3. The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies

      • John McMillan, Christopher Woodruff
      Pages 105-121

    4. Opportunities off the Farm as a Springboard out of Rural Poverty: Five Decades of Development in an Indian Village

      • Peter Lanjouw, Nicholas Stern
      Pages 123-154

    5. The Problem of African Entrepreneurial Development

      • Tyler Biggs, Manju Shah
      Pages 155-189

  4. The Business Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

      • Geeta Batra, Daniel Kaufmann, Andrew H. W. Stone
      Pages 193-214

    3. Obstacles Facing Smaller Business in Developing Countries

      • Beatrice Weder
      Pages 215-225

  5. Public Policy and Public Attitudes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Bringing SMEs into Global Markets

      • Kris Hallberg, Yasuo Konishi
      Pages 229-245

    3. The Role of Government in Enhancing Opportunity for the Poor: Economic Mobility, Public Attitudes, and Public Policy

      • Carol Graham
      Pages 247-281

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 283-297
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University, USA

    Gary S. Fields

  • International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, USA

    Guy Pfeffermann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pathways Out of Poverty

  • Book Subtitle: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries

  • Editors: Gary S. Fields, Guy Pfeffermann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0009-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0009-3Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 298

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economics, general

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