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 … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …

This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and … individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and … inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although …

situation. This paper looks at the impact of vulnerability on the poverty line. The poverty line is adjusted in the presence of … vulnerability such that the utility of a person at the current poverty line and that at the adjusted poverty line become identical …, under a multiplicative model of vulnerability with constant Arrow-Pratt relative risk aversion, the revised poverty line is …