In recent decades, the Asia-Pacific region as a whole has experienced rapid economic growth
and has shown impressive progress in reducing income poverty. Between the early 1990s and
the early 2000s, the proportion of people in the region living in extreme poverty (i.e. living
on less than $1 per day) fell from 31 per cent to 20 per cent. The absolute number of poor
people also fell during that period: from 931 to 679 million. Despite all this progress, the fact
remains that Asia and the Pacific is still home to two thirds of the world’s poor. An
ESCAP/UNDP/ADB report on progress made toward achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) highlighted the fact that the region has the largest number of
people living in extreme poverty in the world (ESCAP/UNDP/ADB, 2005). Hunger and
malnutrition are also still widespread.
Disparities within countries still present major challenges. It is now clear that national level
data hide deep sub-national disparities. The......

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Title: Persistent And Emerging Issues In Rural Poverty Reduction
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