employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …

This presentation is about poverty and redistribution in emerging economics. It was prepared for the Asian Development … Bank’s Distinguished Speakers Program held on 25 October 2011 at the ADB Headquarters. Various types of poverty alleviation …

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the … imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this behavioral bias: the poor are more susceptible to both an aspirations … failure and pessimism about the likelihood of achieving success. Poverty limits the set of people whose life experiences the …

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the … imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this behavioral bias: the poor are more susceptible to both an aspirations … failure and pessimism about the likelihood of achieving success. Poverty limits the set of people whose life experiences the …

This paper analyzes the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on households. In … applied for work, were denied employment due to shortage of work. We exploit this exogenous variation to calculate triple … viewed as an employment assurance during slack agriculture season but as an alternative to agriculture labor work …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare … from those based on survey consumption data. This result is robust to different poverty lines, sets of regressors, and …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of …

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program … analysis finds that the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest has contributed to increasing overall household …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … consumption data. This result is robust to different poverty lines, sets of regressors, and modeling assumptions of the error term …