New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2019. Organized into four sections, the Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty. From the Contents: 15. Dynamics of Rural Transformation and Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific (Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Fabrizio Bresciani).