Pinnacle Business Management
(ISSN: 2360-946X)
December 2013, Vol.1 (1).
© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research Article
Determinants of poverty in rural parts of Nepal: A study of Western Development Region
Arjun K. Thapa1,
Ananta Raj Dhungana2 , Yub Raj Tripathi3
& Badri Aryal4
1Lecturer of Economics , 2Lecturer of
Statistics , 3&4Lecturer, Accepted 15 December,
2013; Available Online 28 December, 2013
Poverty, especially in rural areas of developing
countries like Nepal persists despite decades of
development efforts. This study intends to analyze
the major determinants of rural poverty. A multi
stage sampling method was applied to generate cross
sectional data by randomly selecting 279 households
from one Village Development Committees of six
districts of Western Development Region of Nepal. In
this study area thirty three percent of households
were lying below poverty line as per the poverty
scoring method. By applying binary logistic
regression, the study identified age of household
head, size of land holding, female's involvement in
service, family occupation and caste as major
determinants of rural poverty. Contrary to general
view, remittances do not show any significant effect
on rural poverty as per this study. So it can be
inferred that poverty in rural parts of Nepal is
entangled in structural and cultural web, and the
remittance sent by migrant family members to rural
households might have been siphoned off to urban
pocket areas. With large chunk of young rural
population engulfed by international labor market
and existing socio-economic structures, the policy
makers need to address the rural poverty via social
and cultural aspects. [
School of Development & Social Engineering,
Pokhara University, Nepal.
School of Development & Social Engineering,
Pokhara University, Nepal.
School of Development & Social Engineering ,
Pokhara University,
Nepal.
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