Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

Rural poverty is often discussed in combination with spatial inequality where rural poor face worse problems with … of rural poverty based on data from the Rural Household Panel Survey of Pakistan Round-1 (2012). The multilevel binary … logistic model is used to integrate concurrent individual and district-level variables to explore area-level effects on poverty …

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 …

of a household's resilience capacity on household consumption and poverty. We use panel data (collected in 2010, 2013 … falling into poverty. Thus, rural development policies should attend to transportation and information and communication …

higher levels of poverty. …