Comparison of Nepalese provincial-level household income reporting as less than adequate: A study on poverty reduction improvement status

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyze the improvement of poverty reduction levels and status of households living in seven provinces of Nepal by focusing on the context of inadequate income distribution. It uses topics-related provincial level data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey such as provincial households’ incomes that are “less than adequate” as proxy variables that specifies betterment of the household in society. To measure living status, economic variables such as employment-population ratio of people aged 15 above, adult literacy rate, percentage of remittances received by households, and access to paved roads within 30 minutes, are selected that influences directly to the need of people as well as are responsible to estimate the poverty status of provincial households. The result shows that rising level of employment, paved road, literacy and remittance enhanced the reform of low-income level people thereafter poverty reduction rate. Such results emphasize that poverty in Nepal is related to multidimensional factors and need to imply different strategies which depend upon the province’s status and that can increase poverty reduction rate since then the objectives of federal system can be worthwhile.