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Poverty in all its forms is the greatest challenge to the international community. One billion people live on less than USD 1/day. Renewed impetus has emerged to half those living in extreme poverty by 2015 and achieve the first MDG. (www.oecd.org/dac/poverty)

To help donors sharpen their focus on poverty reduction efforts, the DAC POVNET offers guidance on how to promote pro-poor growth in agriculture, infrastructure and private sector development. It has also focused on the cross-cutting themes of ex-ante poverty impact assessment and risk and vulnerability.

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Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Lessons from China's Experience at Home and in Africa

Since the late 1970s, China has learnt much from the successes and failures of its diverse domestic poverty reduction initiatives. Despite the political, socio-cultural and demographic differences, many of these lessons can also be applied in Africa.

The DAC Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET) and the Chinese government organised a workshop February 21 to review China’s experience in poverty reduction, concluding that increased cooperation between the DAC members and China would be beneficial for both sides.

Infrastructure for Pro-Poor Growth: Addressing the Challenges in Cambodia

02-Apr-2008

Growth alone is not enough to meet MDG poverty reduction targets in Cambodia. Most poor people still live in rural areas and have not benefited sufficiently from the growth process driven by garment exports, tourism and construction. Expanding and maintaining infrastructure assets is central to making growth more pro poor. Priority areas where development partners can help Cambodia to increase the impact of infrastructure on pro-poor growth include supporting a country led implementation framework, aligning their programmes with it, and developing infrastructure maintenance systems.

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth in Ghana: Implementation Challenges and Issues for Donors

12-Dec-2007

Ghana illustrates the powerful impact of economic incentives on private sector-led growth and poverty reduction. But this growth, largely driven by cocoa and gold exports, owes a lot to favourable circumstances and has failed to transform the structure of the economy. A POVNET workshop considered how to address the challenges to promoting more pro-poor growth in Ghana. Doing so will require urgent improvements in services, especially public services, in infrastructure (electricity, water and roads), education, health and agriculture.
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