Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spatial disparities in human development : an overview of the Asian evidence / Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan -- Methodological issues -- Poverty mapping with aggregate census data : what is the loss in precision? / Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch -- A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia / Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks -- Trade liberalization and spatial inequality : a methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective / Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp -- Inequality in Asia -- Fifty years of regional inequality in China : a journey through central planning, reform and openness / Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang -- Income inequality in rural China : regression-based decomposition using household data / Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou -- Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China / John Knight, Li Shi and Zhao Renwei -- Industrial location and spatial inequality : theory and evidence from India / Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty -- Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal / S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates -- Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines : an exploratory analysis / Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa -- Spatial inequality and development in Central Asia / Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard Pomfret -- Poverty in Asia -- Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India / Shatakshee Dhongde -- Commune-level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia / Tomoki Fujii.

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