Understanding mountain poverty in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: Regional report for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan

In this report, the determinants of economic poverty in mountain areas are analysed using nationally representative livelihood data at the household level. Economic poverty has a central position, because it is perceived to be at the very core of the poverty definition: the inability to fulfil basic needs. Other poverty dimensions, for example a lack of basic facilities and lack of education, are included in the form of predictors of economic poverty, together with other socioeconomic indicators. This approach makes it possible to analyse the relationship between, and impact of, different..