The financial crisis of 1997-98 in East and Southeast Asia has raised questions about sustainability of some hitherto admired modes of poverty reduction. But this paper argues that there remain important lessons to learn from Asia's great ascent out of poverty since the Second World War. It...

One of the recent attempts at theorising the causes of rural poverty has pinpointed 'urban bias' as the villain. This contribution points out the flaws of 'urban bias' theory as put forward by M. Lipton. Presenting evidence from Bangladesh, it is shown that some of the propositions of Lipton's...