Subject(s): Public administration -- Employment guarantee scheme -- Governance , poverty reduction and best practices -- Understanding poverty in south Asia : Conceptualizing poverty, poverty eradication, understanding poverty, cause analysis and response, how to make public administration reform work for the rural poor, engendering growth for poverty reduction, governance intervention for alleviating poverty in Nepal -- Poverty reduction- good practices, stray experiments : Poverty eradication through participatory democracy, poverty and its management in Pakistan, globalization, decentralization and micro finance, role of self help groups (SHGs) in promoting human rights, poverty eradication through technology integration in Sri Lanka -- Case studies - making services reach ordinary people : Resolve the quagmire of service delivery in Nepal, capability approach and distribution of land, housing and access to metro in national capital territory of Delhi, life and livelihood of poor children in living in metropolis Dhaka, poverty, female labor migration and rural development, women's participation and leadership in ICTs, tele medicine in Karnataka, assessment of implementation of employment guarantee scheme in India, Evaluation of Samurdhi program in Sri Lanka, decentralization planning and poverty alleviation, governance, social accountability and civil society