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	Urban Poverty Alleviation
		Poverty essentially has three closely interrelated aspects: “poverty of money”, “poverty of access” and “poverty of power.” These make the working, living and social environments of the poor extremely insecure and severely limit the options available to them to improve their lives.
		The extent and nature of poverty, as defined by its three aspects and its impact on marginalizing and alienating segments of the urban society, are difficult to measure.
		Commitments to poverty alleviation are dispersed throughout the Habitat Agenda in Chapter III entitled Commitments (sections on Adequate Shelter for All, Sustainable Human Settlements, Enablement and Participation, and Financing Shelter and Human Settlements).
	www.unescap.org /huset/hangzhou/urban_poverty.htm (5315 words)

	Education and Poverty Eradication
		A commitment to poverty eradication was also one of the most important outcomes of the World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen in 1995, where abject poverty was considered a severe injustice and an abuse of human rights.
		Poverty eradication is a priority in the Programme and Budget for 2002-2003 (31C/5) and appropriate initiatives will be implemented in all UNESCO programmes during the coming six years of its work.
		In situations of extreme poverty, girls are particularly at risk as they tend to inherit the poverty of their mothers.
	www.unesco.org /education/poverty/news.shtml (2019 words)

	Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers -- Operational Issues
		Sustained poverty reduction will not be possible without rapid economic growth; macroeconomic stability, structural reforms and social stability are required to move countries to a higher path of sustainable growth.
		Poverty is multidimensional; specific actions are needed to enable the poor to share in the benefits from growth, increase their capabilities and well being, and reduce their vulnerabilities to risks.
		A poverty reduction strategy should ensure consistency between a country's macroeconomic, structural and social policies and the goals of poverty reduction and social development, and be produced in a way that involves transparency and broad-based participation in the choice of goals, the formulation of policies and the monitoring of implementation.
	www.imf.org /external/np/pdr/prsp/poverty1.htm (12295 words)

	Tanzania National Website
		Generally poverty is a result of many and often mutually reinforcing factors including lack of productive resources to generate material wealth, illiteracy prevalence of diseases, natural calamities such as floods, drought and man made calamities such as wars.
		Poverty remains predominantly a rural phenomenon, although the number of poor in urban areas, mainly the unemployed and those engaged in the informal sector, is growing fast.
		Estimates of responsiveness of poverty reduction to growth indicates that such accelerated growth could lead to reduction in the share of population living below the poverty line from around 50 percent currently to 30 percent by year 2015.
	www.tanzania.go.tz /poverty.html (1750 words)

	Poverty Reduction Strategies \| Poverty and Growth Blog
		At the Poverty and Growth Program of the World Bank Institute we are organizing an E-learning course on "Economic Literacy for Civil Society", which will be based on the lecture notes we have been posting in the Fridays Academy series during the last few months.
		The Day seeks to promote increased awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and serves to remind all people that sustained and concerted effort is vital to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) of halving, betwen 1990 and 2015, the number of people living in poverty (less than 1 dollar a day).
		Poverty rates in Western Asia and Northern Africa remained almost unchanged between 1990 and 2002 and increased in the transition economies of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
	pgpblog.worldbank.org /categories/poverty_reduction_strategies (0 words)

	Poverty Reduction Strategy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There are more working people in poverty, poverty rates in the suburbs are increasing and, if regional cost of living differences are taken into account, the number of Americans in poverty is much higher than assumed.
		Although urban poverty has long been assumed to be a central city problem rather than a suburban problem, census figures indicate that the poverty gap between central cities and suburbs is narrowing.
		The Workforce Development for Poverty Reduction Project provided NLCI the opportunity to apply what was learned under the Urban Poverty, Economic Development and Cities Project (1998-2002) -- that in order to have an impact on poverty, it is necessary to develop people, places and opportunities at the same time.
	www.nlc.org /resources_for_cities/programs___services/304.cfm (0 words)

	IPD's Capacity Building and Journalism Program; Economic Journalism Training
		Many argue that poverty reduction should not be a primary objective for developing countries and that economic growth should be the first priority.
		Both private and public sector enterprises can be an engine of growth and employment; for them to contribute to poverty reduction, an enabling environment and effective regulatory framework should be enforced to promote competition, enforce fair practices and standards, and ensure that essential goods and services are affordable and reach the poor.
		To reduce poverty and to advance the status of half the world's population, support must be provided to the development of gender-sensitive policies and programs.
	www.gsb.columbia.edu /ipd/j_poverty.html (3533 words)

	Poverty reduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poverty reduction (or poverty alleviation) is any process which seeks to reduce the level of poverty in a community, or amongst a group of people or countries.
		Poverty reduction programs may be aimed at economic or non-economic poverty.
		Poverty reduction efforts may also be aimed at removing social and legal barriers to income growth among the poor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_reduction (0 words)

	Enhancing the Fight Against Poverty in Asia and the Pacific: The Poverty Reduction Strategy of the Asian Development ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The great diversity of the conditions and causes of poverty implies that interventions to reduce it must be tailored to particular circumstances.
		Within the framework of the three pillars, interventions for poverty reduction can be short term (such as those that sustain basic services to the poor); medium term (such as targeted interventions); or long term (such as those that build human resources, stimulate pro-poor growth, and encourage expansion of the private sector).
		The complex relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction is illustrated by long-term trends in Asia.
	www.asiandevbank.org /Documents/Policies/Poverty_Reduction/2004/poverty200.asp (0 words)

	UNDP Poverty Report 2000
		To supplement the economic reforms, the State Council's Leading Group for Poverty Reduction was established in 1986 to coordinate targeted interventions against poverty.
		The Leading Group for Poverty Reduction is supposed to coordinate and oversee these initiatives, but not implement them.
		A high priority for China's poverty programme is to supply the rural poor with drinking water and promote their food security.
	www.undp.org /povertyreport/countryprofiles/china1.html (694 words)

	Poverty reduction
		Efforts are also underway to ensure that the impact on poverty reduction of programs and projects in sectors such as agriculture, education, health and infrastructure are specific, monitorable and significant.
		In this regard, as indicated below, the implementation of the Policy on Poverty Reduction is expected to enhance the effectiveness of Bank interventions on the welfare of the poor and the achievement of MDGs in its RMCs.
		This report gives an overview of the status and causes of poverty in Africa and to assess the intervention mechanisms applied by the Bank in order to contribute to poverty reduction between 1998-2000.
	www.afdb.org /pls/portal/url/page/ADBHome/Topics/SocialDevelopmentGenderAndInclusion/PovertyReduction (0 words)

	Poverty Environment Net \| povertyenvironment.net
		The paper "Poverty and water supply and sanitation services" (Water Policy International) claims that the lack of universal coverage of water supply and sanitation has a lot to do with the economic fundamentals of a country, with poverty as the overriding problem.
		Poverty as a direct result of environmental degradation has been identified as a major obstacle towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the region.
		This 3-day workshop on environmental mainstreaming for poverty reduction and sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific was organized by UNDP and UNEP in partnership with ADB and UNESCAP.
	www.povertyenvironment.net (759 words)

	Poverty Reduction Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		NLC's Poverty Reduction Strategy recognizes that municipal government can contribute to efforts to reduce poverty, providing key resources and capacities, and that the views and perceptions of local officials are key determinants of local policies and programs that can affect poverty.
		Under the Municipal Action to Reduce Poverty Project, NLC has looked at strategies and combinations of strategies that utilize existing municipal resources and powers to reduce urban poverty.
		Develop an overview of municipal government structure, examples of cities that have used various functions and capacities in new ways to address poverty, and case studies of cities that have taken a holistic approach to equity and poverty reduction.
	www.nlc.org /Resources_for_Cities/Programs___Services/Poverty_Reduction_Strategy_Project (0 words)

	Rural Poverty Reduction in South Asia
		A workshop on “Rural Poverty Reduction” was held jointly from 29 October to 3 November 2001 by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB Institute), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Aga Khan Foundation and the Institute for Development Studies, Jaipur (IDSJ), India.
		Recognizing that rural development and poverty reduction require broad-based approaches, it was evident from the outset when the workshop was conceptualized that not all relevant aspects that impact on rural poverty reduction can be covered in a six-day workshop.
		On the need for poverty reduction, Chua said that the Asia and the Pacific area is the largest developing region in the world and is home to the largest number of world’s poor.
	www.adbi.org /executive-summary/2001/11/12/109.rural.poverty.reduction (1252 words)

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		Poverty will not be eradicated without an immediate and major increase in international aid.
		This article focuses on the fiscal feasibility of a plan for global inequality reduction, a project that can be defined as a large-scale historic social process of social change aiming to diminish ‘oligarchic wealth’ in favour of a less extremely unbalanced structure of distribution, that is, ‘democratic wealth’.
		Stern’s citing as examples of successful ‘large scale poverty reduction’, Chinese provinces and not the country as a whole, or of Indian states and not the country as a whole is striking.
	www.lycos.com /info/poverty--poverty-reduction.html (784 words)

	Poverty Reduction in the Middle East and North Africa \| Poverty and Growth Blog
		Poverty Reduction in the Middle East and North Africa
		Poverty Reduction in the Middle East and North Africa
		The slow growth can be at the origin of this lack of progress in poverty reduction.
	pgpblog.worldbank.org /poverty_reduction_in_the_middle_east_and_north_africa (0 words)

	UNDP \| Poverty Reduction
		We sponsor innovative pilot projects; connect countries to global good practices and resources; promote the role of women in development; and bring governments, civil society and outside funders together to coordinate their efforts.
		UNDP's Poverty Group introduces a series of in-depth brainstorming meetings bringing together a group of experts to develop a comparative assessment of various practical approaches and macroeconomic modeling for the MDGs with a view to providing a better understanding of the different models.
		On Poverty Day 2006, UNDP China was honoured for its role in driving Chinese poverty reduction at a high level event in Beijing.
	www.undp.org /poverty (369 words)

	UNICEF - Why we do it - Poverty reduction starts with children
		No society has ever seen a broad-based reduction in poverty without major and sustained investments in the rights of its people to health, nutrition and basic education.
		Poverty is transmitted from one generation to the next.
		Breaking this cycle of poverty depends on investments by governments, civil society and families in children's rights and wellbeing, and in women's rights.
	www.unicef.org /why/why_poverty.html (380 words)

	undp poverty reduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		UNDP promotes the concept of human poverty as a complement to income poverty, emphasizing that equity, social inclusion, women's empowerment, and respect for human rights matter for poverty reduction.
		This includes efforts to monitor and map poverty, in particular the monitoring and reporting of Millennium Development Goals in Sri Lanka which are a set of 8 goals and 18 targets including areas such as education, gender equality, child-maternal health, and environment that are critical for achieving a sustainable reduction of poverty.
		UNDP is currently assessing these experiences with grassroots poverty initiatives and their development impact with a view to identify ways of effectively addressing chronic poverty under a new programme of assistance.
	www.undp.lk /PovRed.html (0 words)

	Expert group meeting on SOCIAL FUNDS AND POVERTY REDUCTION:FOR YOUTH: Making Social Funds Work for Poor People
		Ultimately, the role of social funds in poverty alleviation is based on their ability to reach those most in need.
		Yet, evaluations of the performance of Social Funds suggest that the overall effect of social funds on poverty alleviation, social protection and risk reduction is not as uniform or as effective as anticipated.
		Examine and exchange views on ways and means to improve the impact of social funds for the reduction of poverty, including lessons learned from regional and national experiences with a variety of social funds, and the use of poverty targeting;
	www.un.org /esa/socdev/poverty/subpages/poverty_egm2.htm (0 words)

	Poverty Reduction Initiative
		The Traverse Bay Poverty Reduction Initiative (PRI) is a community-driven, collaborative effort to reduce poverty in the Traverse Bay region by 25% by 2010.
		The program was born out of the Poverty Summit, held in February 2004, in which 225 area residents joined together to address the issue of poverty in our area.
		Poverty Reduction Initiative consists of representatives from local businesses, public and government agencies, and concerned citizens.
	www.nwm.org /pri.asp (147 words)

	UNDP-ET: Poverty Reduction
		The objective of the programme is to strengthen the national capacity for food security and poverty reduction.
		This is in support of the government's strategy that hinges on "Agricultural Development Led Industrialisation" for overall economic development and poverty reduction in Ethiopia.
		For poverty reduction to be realized, efforts should concentrate on bringing about food security and development in the agriculture sector.
	www.et.undp.org /poverty/poverty.htm (534 words)

	Energy and Poverty Reduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A new framework for action has been developed to enhance the poverty impact of country actions and development assistance.
		is a guide to assist countries in the development and strengthening of poverty reduction strategies.
		The Energy Chapter is a draft, which will be revised in the light of country experience in developing and strengthening poverty reduction strategies.
	wbln0018.worldbank.org /esmap/site.nsf/pages/energypovertyreduction (0 words)

	Practical Action - Powering Poverty Reduction
		In its paper, Powering Poverty Reduction, launched at the International Conference for Renewable Energies in Bonn, ITDGPractical Action is calling for international policies that consider the needs of the poor and ensure that appropriate, workable and renewable services are promoted.
		Because of the extreme poverty of people without access to modern energy services, in many cases market-based solutions have to be complemented by intelligent subsidies or appropriate financing mechanisms which better target the poor.
		If the energy sector is linked with the poverty reduction strategy, by placing more priority to the end-use development aspect, there will be greater benefit for the poor and the renewable energy system will be more sustainable.
	www.itdg.org /?id=powering_poverty_reduction (4244 words)

	Poverty
		The contents of a poverty monitoring system may vary from one country to the next, but the way in which it is formulated remains essentially the same and many of the elements described in this document can be expected to be found in most systems.
		The approach is not limited to poverty monitoring alone but is one that can be applied to any sector for which statistical information needs to be collected and analyzed.
		Issues of Governance will be highlighted during the Forum to underscore the key role of institutions in the developmental and implementation aspects of a Poverty Reduction Strategy, and (ii) to propose methods and toolkits for use in incorporating these concerns into the PRSP process.
	poverty2.forumone.com /library/topic/3352 (598 words)

	Africa: G7 on Poverty Reduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With the dramatic change in the world economy that has come as a result of the rapid progress in globalization, it is vital that the international community take action to ensure that developing countries have the opportunity to benefit from the forces of globalization and to play their role in the world economic system.
		This figure will be further increased by the reduction in Official Development Assistance (ODA) debt which we agreed at Cologne and by the commitment we have now made to grant 100 per cent debt forgiveness on eligible commercial debt owed to us by HIPCs which achieve debt reduction under the initiative.
		The decision point for these countries will depend on their commitment to poverty reduction and economic growth, as demonstrated by their progress in developing poverty reduction strategies and their performance in relation to their IMF programmes.
	www.africaaction.org /docs00/g7-0007.htm (2895 words)

	Western Poverty Reduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The objective of the proposed Western Poverty Reduction Project (WPRP) is to alleviate chronic poverty for the absolute poor living in remote and inaccessible villages of Gansu and Qinghai Provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (hereinafter referred to as Project Provinces-PPs).
		Executive powers are vested in the County Project Management Office (CPMO), responsible for preparing the county's poverty reduction plan, implementing projects, co-ordinating the activities of the line agencies, providing technical support to township work stations and village committees, monitoring physical and financial progress, and reporting to PADOs.
		The recent Quality Assurance Group Review of SWPRP and the Shanxi Poverty Alleviation Project concluded that the strong commitment of the central and provincial governments to integrated poverty reduction is the key to the early success of the projects.
	www.worldbank.org.cn /English/content/696f1228214.shtml (2581 words)

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