The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty … — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate poverty, promote human dignity and equality and achieve peace, democracy … development and reducing poverty by 2015 or earlier. Emanating from the Millennium Declaration, the Millennium Development Goals …

Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most … important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty …-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development …

the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of …, restricting their opportunities and their choices. And water-borne infectious diseases are holding back poverty reduction and …

, technology has been a powerful tool for human development and poverty reduction. …

, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of growth is therefore as important as its quantity; for poverty …

poverty and inequity. These challenges can be dealt with effectively by strong local institutions and federations. Governments …

, ethnicity, religion and gender. The paper, outlining these challenges, argues that while a direct attack on poverty through …

macroeconomic conditions. Sen’s capabilities approach to poverty, which underlies the HDI, highlights the lack of capacity of the …