time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether … evidence that the labor productivity gap reduces rural and urban poverty, as well as national-level inequality …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that agricultural households or …

evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey (NSS) data, 50th round in 1993-1994 and 61st round in 2004-2005. The …

. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …

This study examines if household access to microfinance reduces poverty in Pakistan, and if so, to what extent and … across which dimensions of well-being by taking account of the multi-dimensional aspect of poverty. The study draws on first … participating households, that is, the poverty reducing-effects were observed and statistically significant on a number of …

household poverty. However, the application of treatment effects model and PSM to each cross-sectional component of the panel …The purpose of the present study is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the … nationally representative household panel data covering 4 rounds from 1997 to 2005. A special attention was drawn to the issue of …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India - which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … vulnerability too in both countries, implying that diversification of household activities into non-farm sector would reduce such …

. Finally, improvement in agricultural productivity reduces static poverty, but does not lead to reduction in household … extension programmes in reducing poverty and vulnerability drawing upon LSMS panel data in Uganda in 2009-2012 covering three … rounds. We first estimate household crop productivity using stochastic frontier analysis that can allow for stochastic shocks …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India – which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … vulnerability too in both countries, implying that diversification of household activities into non-farm sector would reduce such …