health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …

particular, poverty reduction was slower in low-income DMCs than the others under both the $1.25 and $2 per day poverty lines …Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005-2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing …

Working-age people with disabilities are often overlooked in discussions of the latest statistics on employment, income …, poverty, and other measures. This book reviews what current data on this population can and cannot tell us, as well as how …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … poverty rate, but they tend to decrease the poverty gap and thereby ameliorate the depth of poverty. The estimates suggest … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7-1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of …

This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries … called the "poverty equivalent growth rate", the paper examines both (i) how growth in mean income (or expenditure) has fared … in inequality on poverty. This trade-off between inequality and growth is quantified using a tool called the "inequality …