The Asian 'poverty miracle' : impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements edited by Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan.

"A joint publication of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An Asian poverty line? Issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- A poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Jacques Silber -- Concepts and measurment of vulnerablility to poverty and other issues: a review of literature / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring the impact of vulnerability on the number of poor: a new methodology with empirical illustrations / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- Climate change and vulnerability to poverty: an emperical investigation in rural Indonesia / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring multidimensional poverty in three Southern Asian countries using ordinal variables / Val©♭rie B©♭renger -- Poverty and nutrition: a case study of rural household in Thailand and Viet Nam / Hermann Waibel and Lena Hohfeld -- Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries / Carlos Gradin.

Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme poverty, but this drop was not uniform and achievements are still incomplete.