Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...

Extreme Armut beeinträchtigt das Leben eines Fünftels der Weltbevölkerung und hält 100 Mill. Kinder jährlich vom Besuch einer Schule ab. In Afrika allein besuchen 45 Mill. Kinder keine Schule, und 313 Mill. Menschen müssen mit weniger als einem US-Dollar pro Tag auskommen. Das Jahr 2005...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has long addressed ways to reduce poverty in its operations and has now established poverty reduction as its overarching objective. The intensified focus on poverty reduction needs to be addressed in conjunction with questions in development that remain on the...

The paper discusses key challenges faced throughout the Asia and the Pacific region as a number of its developing economies graduate from low-income status to middle-income status at the same time as the region remains home to the majority of the world's poor people and a number of fragile...