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Evolving Views on Poverty: Concept, Assessment, and Strategy

By Siddiqur Rahman Osmani

Poverty and Social Development Paper No. 7

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The ideas of diversity in the experience of poverty and the need to ground poverty reduction strategies on the reality of the poor's experience are some of the common themes addressed here.

This paper offers a critical overview some of the emerging ideas on poverty focusing on

• the concept of poverty including notions of capability, vulnerability, and social exclusion
• achieve gender equality improvements in the implementation of ADB-financed activities
• poverty assessment methods: quantitative vs. qualitative
• approaches to poverty reduction strategy: sustainable livelihood vs. rights based

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Contents

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1. Introduction
2. Conceptualizing Poverty
3. Assessment of Poverty: Some Methodological Issuese Issues and Options
4. Participatory Poverty Assessment
5. New Approcahes to Poverty Reduction Strategy
6. Concluding Remarks

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