Pathways out of Rural Poverty and the Effectiveness of Poverty Targeting
This study found that poverty targeting in investment projects brought small and temporary benefits to the rural poor without lifting them out of poverty.
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Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Background and Rationale of the Study
- Literature Review
- Objective and Methodology
- Limitations of the Study
- Poverty Exit and Underlying Factors
- Poverty Exit and Sustainability
- Household Strategies for Poverty Exit
- Household Resources
- Context and Conditions
- Poverty Reduction Interventions
- Issues, Underlying Causes, and Alternatives
- Poverty Exit and the Roles of Agriculture and Migration
- Household Vulnerability and Poverty Reversal
- Financing Rural Infrastructure Investment
- Credit and Poverty Reduction
- Fundamental Problems in Poverty Targeting
- Conclusions
- How Rural Households Rise Out of Poverty
- What Mattered to the Poverty Exit
- What Worked and What Did Not
- What Went Wrong and Why
- Recommendations
Appendixes
- Basic Questionnaires for Household Interview
- Case Study: Viet Nam
- Case Study: People's Republic of China
- Case Study: Malaysia
- Basic Data of Projects Selected for Case Studies
- Issues Deserving Further Study
Management Response
DEC Chair Summary
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