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ASIA 2015 – Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty

High Level Conference
Lancaster House, London: 6-7 March 2006

Purpose | Conference Themes | ADB Participants | Expected Outputs, Participants and Conference Documents

Asia 2015 is a major two-day conference to be hosted by DFID and co-sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.

The conference aims to achieve the following:

  • To highlight and celebrate the success of Asia in reducing poverty and promoting development, to share knowledge and spread the gains of development.
  • To identify the key challenges facing countries in Asia for sustaining growth and development in the future.
  • To build partnerships and an international consensus on priorities for action to meet these challenges and achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Asia.

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The conference will look in detail at three key themes.

  • Future Scenarios: Prospects and Challenges for Asian Development
  • Unleashing the Potential for Poverty Reduction
  • Where Next? Setting the Agenda for Partnership to 2015.

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ADB Participants

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For more information about this conference, visit

http://www.asia2015conference.org*

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 Contacts  
ADB conference secretariat:

Shahid Zahid (Mr.)
Principal Economist
(Planning and Policy)
E-mail: szahid@adb.org

Ms. Manju Senapaty
Senior Planning and Policy Specialist
E-mail: msenapaty@adb.org

Antonio Ressano Garcia (Mr.)
E-mail: aressano@adb.org

Alely Bernardo (Ms.)
Tel: +632 632-5961
Fax: +632 636-2182
E-mail: aabernardo@adb.org

ADB press office:

David Kruger (Mr.)
Tel: +632 632-5204
E-mail: dkruger@adb.org or information@adb.org

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