Eradicating poverty has long been one of the priorities of development co-operation. Yet, despite undoubted progress … towards this goal, the strategies adopted at the international and national levels remain controversial. Poverty reduction is … thorough as the state of the art will allow. How realistic is it to seek to cut extreme poverty by half by the year 2015? What …

Poverty reduction remains a major development challenge in much of Asia and the Pacific. Historically, technology has … technological impetus — as well as improved policies and institutions — are needed to address the persistent poverty problem in some …