civil society organisations, are focusing as never before on the development priority of reducing poverty by half by 2015 …. Country-led and country-owned poverty reduction strategies focusing on local needs and priorities as determined by … stakeholders are now the focus of all development assistance efforts. The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction provide practical …

advantage of EFR approaches in both their development and poverty reduction strategies. Following a review of the instruments of … EFR and related technical issues, Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction focuses on the political economy and …

. Focusing on pro-poor growth and income poverty, Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors identifies binding … methodology for conducting ex-ante poverty impact assessment, a valuable tool for those whose aim is to maximise the poverty …

Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However … economic growth. The Aid for Trade Initiative – launched at the 2005 World Trade Organisation conference in Hong Kong – aims at … helping these countries to take advantage of trade opportunities and to reap the benefits of their integration into the world …

international development address that most compelling of human desires-a world free of poverty and free of the misery that poverty …In a first-ever joint report by the UN, the OECD, the World Bank and the IMF, the world’s four principal development … institutions assess progress towards poverty reduction goals and agree on a common vision for the way forward. The goals for …

part of the quest to reduce poverty. They cover key issues such as: security, development and dealing with small arms …

both poverty and economic and social alienation of the poor, because it has positive welfare effects that income support …