This book explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of … success in poverty reduction has come about largely through innovation in the private sector, foreign investment and the move …, to reduce poverty in the region …

to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

and another 30 percent remain highly vulnerable to falling into poverty in any given year. In addition, Indonesia has …Indonesia has experienced strong economic growth over the last forty years. At the same time, the proportion of … Indonesians living below the poverty line has fallen dramatically. Nonetheless, around 12 percent of Indonesians remain in poverty …