Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …

I use a stochastic model to explore the dynamics of poverty in India from 1952 to 2006 and find that temporal … transitions into and out of poverty are common. Model outcomes suggest that transitions out of poverty outnumber transitions into … poverty in recent times, but that there is still a nontrivial proportion of individuals transitioning annually into poverty …