Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia -- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance -- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence -- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan -- Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India -- Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia-Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? -- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? -- Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal -- Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines -- Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific -- Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific -- Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia.