Chapter 1 Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Chapter 2 Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence

Chapter 3 Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan

Chapter 4 Climate Change, Agricultural Production, and Poverty in India

Chapter 5 Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy Between the Income and Non-income Dimensions: Are We not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence?

Chapter 6 Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India

Chapter 7 Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India

Chapter 8 Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Chapter 9 Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach

Chapter 10 Non-income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household-Level Data in India

Chapter 11 Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States?

Chapter 12 The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal

Chapter 13 Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children Under Kinship Care in the Philippines

Chapter 14 Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle-Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific

Chapter 15 Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia