Description

Volume 1 includes as highlights President Tadao Chino's Inaugural Address, Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell's address on the role of the international monetary system in poverty reduction efforts, and many other contributions from leading policymakers and researchers, as well as a large number of contributions of ADB staff. The books are based on materials prepared for the International Poverty Forum hosted by ADB in 2001.

The two volumes include sections devoted to:

• Consideration of broad strategic approaches for poverty reduction efforts in the Asia and Pacific Region
• Macroeconomic concerns and the role of trade and growth in poverty reduction
• Promoting good governance
• Role of civil society and the private sector
• Priority social development policies to achieve irreversible reduction of poverty
• How to design social protection interventions to effectively reduce poverty
• Special topics related to poverty measurements and targeted poverty reduction efforts
• Views from non-governmental organizations and other civil society groups such as trade unions

The books include addresses and papers from leading scholars and policymakers, and cover a wide range of poverty issues. Volume One addresses the major themes considered at the Forum except for social protection issues, which are considered in Volume Two.

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Broad strategies for reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific—Macroeconomic policy and the role of multilateral development institutions.
• Fostering good governance in the fight to reduce poverty
• The role of civil society and the private sector in poverty reduction efforts
• Special topics - targeted poverty reduction mechanisms
• Country studies - poverty in Asia and the Pacific