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 …

affect income, poverty, and income distribution. Panel data regression models with household fixed effects show that rainfall … poor by more than 50%. Recurrent rainfall shocks also increase the poverty rate, the poverty gap, and poverty severity …

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 …

-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using income and consumption approaches focusing on poverty and on subjective assessment using … happiness approach. Additionally, a probit model was used for a poverty assessment. The survey revealed that flooded farmers … were amongst the poorest in the study system. Seven variables determined poverty in this study: household size, location …