... impact of the poverty reduction strategy on
country-level operations and project designs, and the moni-
toring and evaluation of the strategy, poverty assessment
reports, and country strategies and ... reviewed
and analyzed large amounts of data and published litera-
ture on poverty in Asia and the Pacific, the roles of growth
and social devel...
... care
and education and enhances the contact and communica-
tion of the poor with the outside world. However, the team
found that the positive impacts of transport and energy
investments on the ... impact upon the
income and nonincome dimensions of poverty. The case stud-
ies strongly confirmed that transport and energy investments
are agents of...
... pp. 7580.
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Transport and energy enable other activities to bring about poverty reduction. Policies and
approaches ... question the value of public infrastructure
investments in promoting sustainable development and
poverty reduction.
Since the 1970s and the ide...
... data and pub-
lished literature on poverty in Asia and the Pacific, the
roles of growth and social development and of infrastruc-
ture in poverty reduction, the impact of the PRS on coun-
try-level ... services impacts on poverty reduction in four sec-
tors energy, water and sanitation, transportation, and
information and communication (Brenneman...
... this one leading to the Northeast Region.
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late economic activity and, in some projects, to reduce
regional ... Walle 1999.
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erty Reduction Project, the key performance indicator...
... Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction
Environment
The construction and operation of infrastructure
projects often involves significant impacts on the physical
environment that ... before -and- after, with-
and- without, poor -and- nonpoor, and gender-based com-
parisons, and maximizes the chance of obtaining valid and
reliable research r...
... database.
Household
Characteristics
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The team examined 15 combinations of transport,
energy, credit, and technical support interventions on the
basis ... con-
ducted, using household access to transport and energy
infrastructure, the quality and intensity of servic...
... believed that transport and energy contributed
to poverty reduction, and that roads contributed most of all.
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in comparison ... Thailand study team.
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For electricity, th...
... limousine.
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on nonagricultural wages and government salaries. In
Kuchchh, only 43% of the income of poor households and
23% ... scarce.
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growth has not done more for th...
... research.
Definitions of Poverty
One of the first conclusions that became clear from a
review of the literature and the three country studies is that
the definitions of poverty and poverty reduction are many
and ... travel.
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basis, helps to mitigate poor farm...