This study seeks to build a better understanding of the nature of poverty in Nepal and to provide an affordable set of strategic options for ADB in helping the Government reduce poverty.
This study seeks to build a better understanding of the nature of poverty in Nepal and to provide an affordable set of strategic options for ADB in helping the Government reduce poverty.
This report forms an integral part of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) continuing efforts to focus on poverty in Nepal. ADB has launched a series of initiatives to analyze the nature and causes of poverty in Nepal and to develop better approaches to reduce it, following adoption of poverty reduction as ADB's overarching goal in November 1999. Important among these initiatives is the preparation of a poverty assessment to better understand the nature of poverty in the country and to provide a set of strategic options for ADB in helping the Government reduce poverty.
- Foreword, Abbreviations, Contents
- Executive Summary
- Current Situation
- Introduction
- Definition and Quantitative Measures of Poverty
- Characteristics of Poverty
- Human Development Indexes
- Social Exclusion
- Changes in Poverty Incidence and Income Distribution Over Time
- Conceptual Framework for Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Introduction
- Conceptual Framework for a Poverty Reduction Strategy
- The Government's Poverty Reduction Program
- Historical Perspective
- Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Constraints to Poverty Reduction
- Overview of ADB's Assistance Program for Nepal
- Trends in Overall Development Assistance to Nepal
- ADB Assistance to Nepal
- Shifts in Focus of ADB's Country Operational Approach for Nepal Over Time
- ADB's Approach to Poverty Reduction in Nepal
- Relevance of the Conceptual Framework to the Nepal Context
- Strategic Concerns
- ADB's Approach to Poverty Reduction in Nepal
- Appendixes
- Dalits, Janajatis, Sukumbasis, and Kamaiyas
- Proceedings of High-Level Forum on Poverty Analysis
- Group Discussions: Important Comments and Observations
- Participants at the High-Level Forum on Poverty Analysis
- References