List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors .. xiv Foreword .. xvii Anthony Shorrocks Acknowledgements .. xix List of abbreviations . xxi 1 Spatial disparities in human development: An overview of the Asian evidence .. 1 Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan Part I: Methodological issues .. 7 2 Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: What is the loss in precision? . 9 Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch 3 A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia .. 36 Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks Part II: Inequality in Asia 87 5 Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform and openness . 89 Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang 6 Income inequality in rural China: Regression-based decomposition using household data 115 Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou 7 Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China 133 John Knight, Li Shi and Zhao Renwei 8 Industrial location and spatial inequality: Theory and evidence from India .. 158 Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty 9 Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal .. 188 S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates 10 Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: An exploratory analysis.. 207 Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa 11 Spatial inequality and development in central Asia .. 233 Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard Pomfret Part III: Poverty in Asia . 271 12 Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India .. 273 Shatakshee Dhongde 13 Commune-level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia .. 289 Tomoki Fujii Index 315