'Poverty, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth in Asia' examines why Asia needs inclusive growth, what policy ingredients an inclusive growth strategy entails, and how such a strategy can lead to benefits of growth being more equitably shared.

Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Poverty, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth in Asia; Inequality and Poverty in Asia; Non-income Poverty and Inequality in Asia; Gender Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Asia; Inclusive Growth through Full Employment: The Role of Investment and Industrial Policy; Why is Access to Basic Services Not Inclusive?; Social Protection in Asia; Governance and Institutional Quality and the Links with Growth and Inequality: How Asia Fares; Growth, Inequality, and the Labor Market: The Philippines; Poverty and Inequality in Nepal: An Empirical Analysis; Decomposing Income Inequality: People's Republic of China, 1990-2005; Evolution of Income Mobility: People's Republic of China, 1991-2002; Occupational Segregation and Gender Discrimination in Labor Markets: Thailand and Viet Nam; Inclusiveness through Food Security: The Philippines' National Food Program; Index

‘In this collection of 13 chapters of careful and detailed research on poverty and inequality by staff from the Asian Development Bank and their collaborators, future directions for policy innovation are canvassed.’ — Kosmas Tsokhas, ‘Journal of Contemporary Asia’

'This book is a thoughtful and scholarly presentation of the issues and solutions, and offers a way through the policy maze. It is a practical response to Asian 'suffering,' and a welcome balance to the growing number of books celebrating 'shining' Asia.' —Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Wolfensohn Center for Development, Brookings Institution