An asset based approach for assessing poverty dynamics, poverty traps, and poverty-environmental relations in Nepal

project summary

The project aims at contributing to the understanding of poverty dynamics in developing countries. The project focuses on developing an asset model that identifies types of poor with regard to their expected welfare status. The research is novel, as local perceptions of poverty and contributing factors associated with being or becoming poor are included in the model. The asset model aims at providing a more precise and perhaps more cost-effective method for measuring the welfare of individual households. The results are intended towards policy makers in Nepal and the development community at large. The research project also includes capacity building of PhD students from Nepal.