Multidimensional poverty and economic development in developing countries

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26380341
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic policy
Research Institution	Ryukoku University
Principal Investigator	Ueyama Mika 龍谷大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90635640)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	貧困 / 途上国 / サブサハラ・アフリカ / 南アジア / ジェンダー / 教育 / 保健 / MDGｓ / 経済発展 / アフリカ / 人的資本
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study examined the multifaceted characteristics of poverty such as income (consumption), education, health condition and gender differences, in developing countries. The study mainly focused on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa where income (consumption) poverty was the most serious. This study also investigated how the characteristics of poverty changed with the process of the economic development. In recent ten years, education and health output measures such as school enrollment and immunization rates were improved rapidly in many developing countries including the LDC. These improvement caused mainly by the international actions for the MDGs achievement. The tendency of such improvement is not strongly correlated with the process of economic development. We need a longer-term viewpoint for the improvement of health and education outcome and gender discrimination.