Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …

. This case study presents the main findings from the community of Commonwealth in Metro Manila (Philippines); other volumes … other poverty studies:a micro-level approach combining households and communities as the main units of analysis, an …

The Philippines is home to around twenty five million of the 2.3 billion people worldwide who lack access to a basic … 2005, to undertake a three-part study that would assess the reasons why low income urban households in the Philippines … this study are to provide context for the sanitation conditions of low-income communities in the Philippines and to …