期刊名称：Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific
印刷版ISSN：0252-5704
出版年度：2001
卷号：1
出版社：ESCAP, Development Research and Policy Division (DRPAD)
摘要：Absolute poverty is one of the most serious
challenges facing many developing countries in the
ESCAP region. Based on an international poverty
line of $1 a day per capita at 1993 prices, around
800 million poor people lived in the Asian and
Pacific region in 1998, accounting for around 67 per
cent of the world¡¯s poor.20 This was significantly
