Poverty Monitoring in Asia

The Regional Conference on Poverty Monitoring in Asia, held in March 2004, sought to contribute to policies on poverty monitoring for more efficient and effective poverty reduction, improvement of procedures and techniques in poverty monitoring, promotion of creative new methodologies and replication of best practices. This volume contains selected papers from the conference that synthesis the experiences and lessons learned by practitioners and researchers from six Asian countries. The papers and discussions provide valuable insights into innovative and practical examples of poverty monitoring in real life contexts and are a timely contribution to the dissemination of regional experiences from Asia.