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Poverty Reduction:
What's New and What's Different?

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In conjunction with its 32nd Annual Meeting in Manila, ADB organized a seminar on "Poverty Reduction: What's New and What's Different?" on 29 April 1999.

This report captures the main issues of the presentations and discussions.

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Contents

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FOREWORD [ PDF: 29kb | 2 pages ]

OPENING REMARKS [ PDF: 28kb | 1 pages ]
Kazi F. Jalal, Chairman and Moderator

THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE [ PDF: 40kb | 3 pages ]
Richard A. Jolly

Poverty Reduction before the Asian Financial and Economic Crisis
Poverty Reduction after the Crisis
Accelerated Action for Poverty Reduction: Setting Goals
Human Development

NONMARKET INSTITUTIONS [ PDF: 29kb | 2 pages ]
Partha Dasgupta

What We Know
What We Do Not Know

ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR [ PDF: 35kb | 4 pages ]
Christine Wallich

Inclusion and Contestability
Privatization and the Poor
Governance and Anticorruption
Financing Small- and Medium-Scale Enterprises and Microequity
Conclusion

POVERTY IN INDONESIA BEFORE AND AFTER THE CRISIS [ PDF: 37kb | 4 pages ]
Martodinoto Mubyarto

Development Mistakes
Equity and Participation
Supporting a People’s Movement in a People’s Economy
The Crisis and the New Poverty
Prospects for Poverty Eradication in Indonesia
Conclusion

THE DISCUSSANTS [ PDF: 37kb | 4 pages ]

A.T. Ariyaratne
Anita O. Kelles-Viitanen

GENERAL DISCUSSION [ PDF: 33kb | 3 pages ]

WHAT’S NEXT? EVOLVING ISSUES AND NEW DIRECTIONS [ PDF: 41kb | 5 pages ]

The Asian Crisis, Social Safety Nets, and Pro-Poor Growth
New Ways of Understanding Poverty and Poverty Reduction
People’s Empowerment and Participatory Governance
Nonmarket Institutions: Social Structure and Social Relations
A Pro-Poor Private Sector: Popular Capitalism?
New Directions for the Asian Development Bank