Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
This edited volume is based on a selection of papers submitted to a workshop on poverty reduction and related issues in developing Asia–Pacific.
Theoretical, methodological, and empirical research and policy-oriented papers were sought, with findings, conclusions and policy recommendations based on solid evidence and appropriate methods. The goal was to advance the development of new tools and measurement of multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction policy analysis.
The book copublished with Springer, is a joint effort to analyze poverty reduction in Asia, focusing on drivers, best practices, and policy initiatives, and is a part of a project funded under the Asian Development Bank’s Research and Development Technical Assistances (TAs): TA 7907 on Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific and TA 8239 on Addressing Knowledge and Statistical Gaps in Relation to Poverty Reduction, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth.
Contents
- Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
- Part I: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance
- Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence
- Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan
- Part II: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction
- Climate Change, Agricultural Production, and Poverty in India
- Part III: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies
- Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy Between the Income and Non-income Dimensions: Are We not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence?
- Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India
- Part IV: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies
- Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India
- Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
- Part V: Dimensions of Poverty and Its Reductions
- Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach
- Non-income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household-Level Data in India
- Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States?
- Part VI: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction
- The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal
- Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children Under Kinship Care in the Philippines
- Part VII: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific
- Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle-Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific
- Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia
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