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Milestones in ADB's Strategic Focus on Poverty Reduction

Poverty and Inclusive Growth
May 2008 ADB's new Long-term Strategic Framework 2008-2020 (Strategy 2020) [PDF: 204 kb | 23 pages ] confirms its main development objective of poverty reduction, and suggests the need to make growth and social development in the region more inclusive.
Apr 2008,
Sep 2007		 Special theme chapters in the Asian Development Outlook and ADB's Key Indicatiors show challenges in inclusive growth in Asia and the Pacific.
Dec 2007 The new Poverty Reduction and Development Effectiveness Report [ PDF: 432kb | 75 pages ] links the monitoring of ADB's development and poverty reduction work with the aid effectiveness agenda.
Oct 2007 Conference on Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction gives ideas for ADB's new strategic orienation. Read the keynote paper.
Dec 2004 ADB's enhanced Poverty Reduction Strategy recognizes MDGs, geographical dimensions of poverty, and the organization's contributions to systemic development results and partnership results.
Nov 1999 ADB makes Poverty Reductions its overarching development goal. ADB's long-term strategic framework (Mar 2001) [ PDF: 415kb | 64 pages ] calls for an all-out assault on poverty in line with the International Development Goals for Poverty Reduction.
Mar 1995 Poverty reduction becomes one of ADB's five strategic development goals.
Millennium Development Goals
Oct 2007,
Oct 2006		 MDG Updates for Asia and the Pacific show the region making progress in the income poverty and education targets, but lagging behind in mother and child health and environmental poverty targets.
Oct 2007 Conference on Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction gives ideas for ADB's new strategic orienation. Read the keynote paper.
Jul 2007,
Mar 2007,
Oct 2006		 MDG Fora for Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia discussed how ADB can better assist social development in the respective regions.
Operational Work
Jan 2008 One third of ADB's operations in 2007 directly contributed to poverty reduction. Read about this and other highlights on ADB's poverty reduction efforts.
Tools
Nov 2007,
Dec 2006		 Social Development Handbook, Poverty Handbook, and other tools streamline ADB procedures to be more effective on poverty reduction.