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Strategies and Policies for Poverty ReductionPoverty is multidimensional, involving not only a lack
of income, but also ill-health, illiteracy, lack of access to basic
social services, and little opportunity to participate in the processes
that influence people’s lives. It is also pervasive, as 1.2 billion
people around the globe still live on less than a dollar a day and nearly
850 million people go hungry every night. Poverty reduction should therefore
be the centre of development efforts.
UNDP’s work on the strategies and policies for poverty reduction is anchored in three basic principles: the multi-dimensionality of poverty, the centrality of gender equality and the critical importance of a cross-cutting approach. We believe that economic growth is necessary for sustained poverty reduction, but it is not sufficient. Poor people should not only benefit equitably from economic growth, they should have the opportunity to actively contribute to its generation. Equity is a major dimension of the economic growth-poverty reduction nexus. As a result, strategies and policies for poverty reduction must cover many areas. Key areas of UNDP support include:
Making Infrastructure Work for the PoorThis initiative aimed to investigate the links between small-scale
infrastructure provisioning, and human poverty reduction and human security
enhancement in the context of MDGs. Under this initiative, two concept
papers were prepared – the first dealing with the analytical framework
linking small-scale infrastructure with human poverty reduction and
human security enhancement and the second dealing with governance issues
of small-scale infrastructure. Four country studies were done in community-level
infrastructure development: Bangladesh, Senegal, Thailand and Zambia,
followed by a synthesis study on the basis of these four country studies.
In March 2006, the synthesis study was launched with a keynote speech
from the Nobel Laureate, Professor Amartya Sen. Download
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