[afro-nets] Reducing Poverty on a Large Scale

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Reducing Poverty on a Large Scale
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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)

Reducing Poverty on a Large Scale - Report from the Shanghai
Conference

"Development OUTREACH" is a flagship magazine in the field of
global knowledge for development

SPECIAL REPORT - October 2004
http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/index.asp

"We began our discussions recognizing that in our world of six
billion people, one billion have 80 percent of the income and
five billion have less than 20 percent. We started with the
proposition that in the next 25 years, two billion more people
will come onto the planet, and all but 50 million of them will
be in developing countries. In the year 2025, seven out of the
eight billion people on this planet will be in developing coun-
tries, and by 2050, it will be eight billion out of nine. This
issue of global imbalance is at the core of the challenge to
scale up poverty reduction.

Although the proportion of people living in extreme poverty was
reduced by half between 1981 and 2001, most of the Millennium
Development Goals in education, health, the environment and
other areas, will not be met in 2015 by most developing nations.
To reach these targets, we need to take action now: we need to
find a new way of doing business-a new paradigm for scaling up.

'Scaling up' means taking successful programs, policies, or pro-
jects and expanding, adapting, and sustaining them in different
places and over time.

This requires learning more about what works and what does-
n't..."
James D. Wolfensohn, President of The World Bank


Commentary: Do the deeds match these pronouncements? Claudio

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Special Reports

Reducing Poverty on a Large Scale

Highlights of the Conference - Shanghai Conference, May 25-27,
2004

Experimentation and Learning for Development Results: Experience
from the Shanghai Global Learning Process

The Key to Success: Development Lessons from the East Asia and
Pacific Region

China's Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Reduction

Financing and Scaling Up Efforts: Domestic and External Ap-
proaches

Time for Action: A Perspective from Tanzania on Operational Im-
plications

Integrated Efforts to Reduce Poverty
The Learning Process-Field Visit to Brazil

Ten Good Years: A Successful Outcome of the Southwest Poverty
Reduction Project
The Learning Process-Field Visit to China

Communities in the Driver's Seat
The Learning Process-Case Study in Yemen

What Works, What Doesn't, and Why: A Global Discussion
The Learning Process-Global Dialogue

Looking to the Future: A Leading Role for Youth in the Shanghai
Learning Process


Other Websites:

ACCION INTERNATIONAL: www.accion.org aims to give people the
tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing
"micro" loans and business training to poor women and men who
start their own businesses, ACCION's partner lending organiza-
tions help people work their own way up the economic ladder,
with dignity and pride. With capital, people can grow their own
businesses. They can earn enough to afford basics like running
water, better food and schooling for their children.

CARE, www.careusa.org operates in more than 60 countries around
the world, working with poor communities to find lasting solu-
tions to poverty. With a broad range of programs based in empow-
erment, equity and sustainability, CARE seeks to tap human po-
tential, to leverage the power of people and, in doing so, to
unleash a vast force for progress.

ADB: POVERTY REDUCTION www.adb.org/poverty is a website of the
Asian Development Bank. The site features: Poverty Reduction
Strategy, Millennium Development Goals, Regional and Country Ac-
tivities, Poverty and Development Indicators, Documents and Pub-
lications, News and Events, others.

POVERTYNET www.worldbank.org/poverty is a website of the World
Bank, providing resources and support for people working to un-
derstand and alleviate poverty. The site highlights several top-
ics and programs: Social Capital for Development-norms and net-
works that enable collective action; Understanding Poverty-how
poverty can be defined, measured, and studied through a variety
of indicators; Understanding Impact Evaluation-information and
resources for people and organizations working to assess and im-
prove the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing pov-
erty; and others.

SCALING UP POVERTY REDUCTION: A GLOBAL LEARNING PROCESS AND CON-
FERENCE IN SHANGHAI
www.reducingpoverty.org This website provides the information on
the Shanghai Conference, May 25-27, 2004, including: the ration-
ale behind the conference, the conference program, outcomes,
case studies, global dialogues, field visits, resources, and
feedback. Through "Resources," one has direct access to a com-
prehensive database of case study videos, documentaries, and
flash presentations, and can view the multimedia excursion
around the world called Development 360º.