Poverty 

Emerging Issues

Major Assessments

• RURAL POVERTY REPORT 2001
  Rural Poverty Report 2001 - The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty, IFAD, 2001.
  The Rural Poverty Report 2001 is available in PDF format.

• COMBATING POVERTY- Report of the Secretary-General - 2001 (PDF)
  E/CN.17/2001/PC/5. Prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat as task manager for chapter 3 of Agenda 21, with contributions from United Nations agencies and international organizations. March 2001.
  Available through the Johannesburg Summit prepcom1 webpage: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/ prepcom1.html

• ATTACKING POVERTY WHILE IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT: Towards Win-Win Policy Options - 2000
  Poverty and Environment Initiative sponsored by the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• REDUCING POVERTY: Is the World Bank's strategy working? - 2002 (PDF)
  The Panos Institute; August 2002. Panos Report No 45. London, UK. ISBN 1-870670-60-4
  Three years after the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduced their Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach as the latest template for the world’s poorest countries to get out of poverty, a Panos report examines the progress so far and the arguments about whether PRS can succeed.

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	Resources
	Agenda 21, Chapter 3 UN Social Policy and Dev. Decade for the Eradication of Poverty UN Millenium Poverty TF WorldBank/PovertyNet