poverty reduction and shared prosperity and to assess the drivers of poverty reduction in the last decade. The note documents … the remarkable progress that Bhutan has made in reducing poverty, sharing prosperity, and improving other measures of well …-being. To this end, it first establishes a poverty trend that is measured in a consistent manner over time. The resulting …

objectives articulated in Bhutan's Vision 2020 document and the Ninth Five-Year Plan (Ninth Plan), discusses the poverty … resources, construction, tourism, and agribusiness, emphasizing that while hydropower will continue to drive economic growth …, tourism and value added activities in agriculture will be central to boosting growth and generating broad-based employment …

This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time — 2003 and 2007 — from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty regardless of the indicators’ weights, deprivation cutoffs and identification criterion of the poor. This … poverty among those who were less intensively poor, although not among those who were more intensively poor. Rather than …

1. India / S. Mahendra Dev -- 2. Pakistan / Parvez Hasan -- 3. Bangladesh / Wahiduddin Mahmud -- 4. Sri Lanka / Saman …