Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Macroeconomics -- Economic policy -- Poverty strategies in Asia- growth plus, macro modeling of poverty and dual-dual model, rick market reform and poverty in Philippines, infrastructure and poverty- cross-country evidence, roads and poverty reduction in Lao PDR, poverty, vulnerability and family size- evidence from the Philippines, poverty targeting in Pakistan- case of zakat and lady health worker program, serving the poorest of poor- poverty impact of the Khushhali bank's microfinance lending in Pakistan, role of community preferences in targeting the rural poor- evidence from Uttar Pradesh, contract farming and poverty reduction - the case of organics contract farming in Thailand