(a) Developing, where appropriate, comprehensive armed violence prevention programmes integrated into national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies

Social policy, provisioning, and protection must therefore be integral to development and poverty reduction strategies.

Rethinking Poverty Reduction

To improve targeting to yield the largest possible reduction in poverty with the resources available, the IMF now expects all poor countries borrowing from the Fund to prepare comprehensive poverty reduction strategies.

8. Recognizes the right of countries to choose independently their own paths to development and national poverty reduction strategies

Economic modernization and poverty reduction suffered.

They argue that only poverty reduction matters.

3. Encourages Governments to include issues pertaining to shelter and sustainable human settlements and urban poverty in their national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategy papers, where they exist

16. Further encourages Governments to include issues pertaining to shelter, sustainable human settlements and urban poverty in their national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategy papers, where they exist

Furthermore, risk reduction needs to be integral to sustainable development strategies.

The post 2015 global development agenda must take a comprehensive approach, combining poverty reduction measures with peace building initiatives and strategies for economic transformation.

Indian poverty reduction has been significant, but not substantial.

Poverty reduction requires both economic and social policies that reach people.

Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth?

24. Encourages the continuing examination in all relevant intergovernmental forums of ways and means to integrate poverty reduction objectives and strategies into discussions on international financial and development issues

37. Encourages the continuing examination in all relevant intergovernmental forums of ways and means to integrate poverty reduction objectives and strategies into discussions on international financial and development issues

Of course, poverty reduction involves more than throwing money at a problem.

So the big question is why growth hasn t translated into poverty reduction.

Multilateral lenders have long understood the importance of debt relief to poverty reduction.

In fact, a genuine commitment to poverty reduction implies working with these countries.

The interplay of voluntary fertility reduction and declining poverty are profound and rapid.

Can services be a driver of sustained growth, job creation, and poverty reduction?

Can services be a driver of sustained growth, job creation, and poverty reduction?

Furthermore, budget support that s linked to national poverty reduction strategies also rests on the questionable assumption that the political economy of a partner country works to the benefit of the poorest.

Given the prevalence of poverty and disease, many of these citizens would be motivated to contribute to global poverty reduction efforts.

The mixed record of poverty reduction calls into question the efficacy of conventional approaches.

Otherwise, it will be impossible to achieve long term poverty reduction and inclusive growth.

The United Nations biennial Report on the World Social Situation (RWSS 2010), entitled Rethinking Poverty , makes a compelling case for rethinking poverty measurement and poverty reduction efforts.

They affirm the need for a shift away from the fundamentalist free market thinking that has dominated poverty reduction strategies in recent decades toward context sensitive measures to promote sustainable development and equality.

Nigeria s IMF supported program, for example, embraces the Poverty Reduction Initiative, which aims to use funds productively and to ensure that the public funds for poverty reduction are accounted for in every quarter.

But the prospects for a continuing reduction in world poverty in 2009 are not good.

Any decline in China s growth would thus significantly undermine poverty reduction in the emerging world.

Economic development is the best way indeed, the only way to achieve sustainable poverty reduction.

Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

Growth on its own is not sufficient to guarantee poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific.

The increase in aggregate wealth has not led to the abolition, or even reduction, of poverty.

Second, we must accomplish this while leaving room for continued rapid economic development and poverty reduction.

Indeed, Chinese economic growth must be acknowledged as one of history s great achievements in poverty reduction.

It is now widely accepted that financial assistance alone will not bring about effective poverty reduction.

Second, we must accomplish this while leaving room for continued rapid economic development and poverty reduction.

While economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, reviving growth in lagging regions will take time.

The last three decades also saw the divorce of social policies from overall development strategies as a consequence of the drive for smaller government. National economic development strategies were replaced with donor favored poverty reduction programs, such as land titling, micro credit, and bottom of the pyramid marketing to the poor.

Only when all citizens benefit from economic development can leaders devoted to poverty reduction claim genuine success.

The second pillar of poverty reduction is targeted investments for the poor, particularly for the rural poor.

Never before has the world seen such sustained growth never before has there been so much poverty reduction.