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"The End of Poverty" by Xiaoyun Li is a book that addresses essential questions about poverty and poverty alleviation measures. The author provides reflections on political philosophy and shares vivid stories from the ground about working with poor farmers. The book explores the roots of poverty, the necessity of poverty reduction, and the challenges faced in reducing poverty. It also highlights the importance of engaged scholarship, pro-poor institutional building, and policy intervention in developing countries. The book offers valuable insights from China's experiences and emphasizes the need for comparative studies and broad horizons in poverty reduction efforts. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Social (in)equality, community well-being and quality of life" by Patsy Kraeger, M. Rezaul Islam, and Rhonda Phillips explores the relationship between social inequality, well-being, and quality of life. Unlike other books on the topic, the authors focus on the impact of inequality rather than proving its existence. The book includes case studies from various scales, from local communities to the United Nations, and addresses a wide range of populations experiencing inequality. It also offers insights into different research methodologies and their results. Overall, the book provides lessons on identifying and addressing inequities in diverse contexts and highlights the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social inequality. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Private Capitalization of Public Goods: Hedonic Price Models for Housing in Mexico City" analyzes how public goods and services affect the value of housing in Mexico City. Using hedonic price models, the study identifies factors such as proximity to public parks and perception of public safety that influence the value of housing. The results show that these external factors can increase the value of housing. The article provides relevant information to improve fiscal mechanisms and urban regulations in the city. On the other hand, the article "Urban Poverty in Latin America and the Challenges in the Era of Sustainable Development" analyzes the poverty situation in Latin America and the challenges it faces in the context of sustainable development. The study uses a temporal model that includes information from five municipalities during the period 2015-2018. This article was published in the Mexican journal of studies on the Pacific Basin, Portes. [Extracted from the article]

According to Transparency International, in 2016, Ecuador was ranked the 120th least corrupt country in the world out of 176 countries. Likewise, Felipe Burbano de Lara's chapter investigates Correa's deliberate strategy of state building by traveling to distant parts of the country and physically representing the state in the previously forgotten periphery. Carlos de la Torre, similarly, declares that "Correa wasted resources, used state funds to keep winning elections, and relied on corruption to cement the loyalty of his clique" (108). [Extracted from the article]

In I Mobilizing for Development i , political scientist Kristen E. Looney masterfully illuminates and compares the poorly understood - and often ignored - role that rural development played in the developmental success stories of Taiwan, South Korea, and China. It is not Weberian institutionalized states that Looney describes, but more Leninist-inspired ones, with their indicative application of mobilization and state-led campaigns. In this way, Looney corrects the commonly accepted understanding of a developmental state, which describes a bureaucratically coherent central state that plans, leads, and shapes industrial growth in economies such as these. [Extracted from the article]

In I Invisible China i , Scott Rozelle and coauthor Natalie Hell leverage decades of rural-based research to pen a crystal-clear argument: China's tried-and-true model of development founded on promoting basic manufacturing has run out of steam. To substantiate this argument, Rozelle and Hell turn to the understudied canary in a coal mine that is rural China. [Extracted from the article]

Landslides are a significant geological hazard that is expected to increase due to climate change and intensified rainfall. However, there is a lack of public understanding and awareness regarding landslide risk and its connection to other factors such as land use and deforestation. The failure of risk governance, poverty reduction, and environmental protection contribute to landslides with high death tolls. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction emphasizes the importance of scientific and technological work in reducing disaster losses, and the Sendai Landslide Partnership, facilitated by the International Consortium on Landslides, provides practical tools and education to help countries mitigate landslide risks. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction supports these efforts and encourages other scientific communities to strengthen the science-policy nexus to achieve sustainable development goals. [Extracted from the article]

Finally, the civil society route to social policy has been completely undone by the BJP government. In the second term of the UPA government Ms Gandhi was unable to give attention to the NAC, and the council seems to have lost steam. A democratic state needs civil society, but civil society also needs a supportive democratic state. [Extracted from the article]

Carole Spary's book sheds important insight on the nexus between the Indian state, development policy, and gender inequality. An important contribution is Spary's identification and specification of three broad discourses on gender and development in the Indian context: these are the protective/paternalist, competitive/capability, and structural/transformative discourses. In Chapter 3, Spary examines how gender discourse, institutions and agency evolved in four of India's Five-Year Plans from 1992 till 2011. [Extracted from the article]

The volume is therefore absolutely timely, and it will contribute to the ongoing debate about the African state, its interaction with international donors and the consequences of the type of economic reform that has been sought implemented. This volume represents the most comprehensive review and critique of Uganda's experience with the type of economic reform and practice commonly referred to as neoliberalism. As a reference tome for one particular approach to economic reform in Uganda and beyond, the volume works well. [Extracted from the article]

How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America by Rhys Jenkins, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xix + 407 pp In his new book, I How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America i , Rhys Jenkins does a masterful job of comprehensively exploring and clearly contextualizing the meaning and impacts of China's reemergence as a global economic power for the two most populous, non-Asian, regions of the developing world - Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Chinese development assistance to these two regions emphasizes "economic cooperation and development" and mutual economic benefit, and highlights the China-SSA and the China-LAC relationships as "win-win" as opposed to being referred to in terms of "poverty alleviation" for these regions. [Extracted from the article]

An overview focuses on China's recent changes through conversations with its citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap: By Yuen Yuen Ang Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press, 2016, pp. 344. Yuen Yuen Ang situates the discussion on poverty reduction strictly in the context of the two-way relationship between growth and governance by challenging the linear interpretation of the underlying causal relationship. The state apparatus China inherited from Deng's rule "hardly fit the description of a strong state" (p. 5). [Extracted from the article]

Shantayanan Devarajan of the World Bank reviews "Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development," by Machiko Nissanke and Muna Ndulo. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: "Twelve papers, developed from work initially presented at the April 2013 symposium on "Growth, Poverty, and Inequality— Confronting the Challenges of a Better Life for All in Africa" organized by the Institute of African Development at Cornell University, examine the opportunities and challenges in attacking poverty and securing inclusive development through the advancement of Africa's socioeconomic transformation agenda." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]