Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being978-981-287-420... · 2017-08-25 · Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific and TA 8239 on Addressing Knowledge and

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

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Almas Heshmati · Esfandiar Maasoumi Guanghua Wan Editors

Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Co-publication of the Asian Development Bank and Springer International Publishing AG

EditorsAlmas HeshmatiSogang University SeoulRepublic of Korea

Esfandiar MaasoumiEmory University AtlantaUSA

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This edited volume is part of a project funded under the Asian Development Bank’s Research and Development Technical Assistances (TAs): TA 7907 on Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific and TA 8239 on Addressing Knowledge and Statistical Gaps in Relation to Poverty Reduction, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth.

Almas HeshmatiEsfandiar Maasoumi

Guanghua Wan

Acknowledgments

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Contents

1 Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Almas Heshmati, Esfandiar Maasoumi and Guanghua Wan

Part I Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance

2 Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence . . . . . . 11Mohshin Habib and Christine Jubb

3 Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Zahoor Khan and Jamalludin Sulaiman

Part II Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction

4 Climate Change, Agricultural Production, and Poverty in India . . . . 55Saibal Kar and Nimai Das

Part III Urban Poverty Reduction Policies

5 Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy Between the Income and Non-income Dimensions: Are We not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Dibyendu Samanta

6 Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Sohail Ahmad

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Part IV Rural Poverty Reduction Policies

7 Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Aparajita Mukherjee

8 Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Muhammad Badiuzzaman and Syed Mansoob Murshed

Part V Dimensions of Poverty and Its Reductions

9 Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Thusitha Kumara

10 Non-income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household-Level Data in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Panchanan Das

11 Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Balakrushna Padhi, U.S. Mishra and Mohammad Kashif Khan

Part VI Sustainability in Poverty Reduction

12 The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Ramesh Sunam

13 Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children Under Kinship Care in the Philippines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Joseph J. Capuno and Xylee Javier

Part VII Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific

14 Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle-Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific . . . . . 257Phu Huynh and Steven Kapsos

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15 Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Nathapornpan Piyaareekul Uttama

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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Editors’ Biography

Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at the Sogang University. He held similar positions at Korea University, Seoul National University and University of Kurdistan Hawler. He was a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, and Associate Professor at Stock-holm School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Gothenburg (1994). His research interests include applied microeconomics, globalization, welfare economics, industrial economics, development strategy and performance analysis with application to manufacturing and services.

Esfandiar Maasoumi is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics at Emory University. He is author and coauthor of more than 100 articles, reviews and books, including special issues of Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews. He has written theoretical and empirical papers in both economics and econometrics, and consults on law and economics issues. His current research interests include: non-linear time series, information theory, tests for stochastic dominance, measures of vol-atility, measures of welfare and mobility. Dr. Maasoumi received Ph.D. (1977) degrees from the London School of Economics. He is the Editor of Econometric Reviews.

Guanghua Wan is Principal Economist at the Economics and Research Department of the Asian Development Bank. Previously, he was Senior Economist in the United Nations and taught in a number of universities in Australia and People’s Republic of China (PRC). Trained in development economics and econometrics, Dr. Wan is an award-wining scholar on the Chinese economy and an expert on Asia, with an out-standing publication record of more than 100 professional articles and a dozen books including two by Oxford University Press. He is an honorary professor of over ten top institutions in the PRC, including Fudan and Zhejiang Universities.