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Finance & Development June 1, 2002 Masood Ahmed	Building Consensus on Poverty Reduction One hundred eighty-nine countries came together at the United Nations Millennium Summit and pledged to act individually and collectively to make the Millennium Development Goals a reality.
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Finance & Development June 1, 2002 Angus Deaton	Is World Poverty Falling? Using the same data, two reports released less than two years apart by the World Bank reached apparently different conclusions on whether world poverty was going up or down. How can we know whether the world poverty counts are accurate?
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Sergio Pereira Leite	Human Rights and the IMF Human rights and macroeconomic stability are far from incompatible. Rather, they both play crucial roles in the fight against poverty. By supporting sound economic policies and encouraging constructive dialogue within civil society, the IMF contributes to human rights.
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Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Eduardo Aninat	Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role...
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Geotimes December 2006 Arthur Lerner-Lam	Don't Prioritize: Mainstream Hazard Reduction Into Economic Development Aid A global effort to reduce natural hazard risks is a dream shared by many, but it cannot play out in a development policy vacuum. Making the explicit link between risk reduction and economic development turns a global effort into an international one.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Conny Lotze	Economics with a Social Face An interview with development economist Nora Lustig, long-time advocate of employing social policies in the battle against poverty, on the need to focus on systemic problems that keep the poor and disadvantaged from advancing economically and the economies from realizing their full potential.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Ernesto Hernandez-Cata	Raising Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Be Done? Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This article discusses some obstacles to growth in the region, as well as some policy actions that would improve its prospects.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Sharpe, Wood & Wratten	U.K.: More Country Ownership A country-led approach, in which the governments of developing countries themselves define and lead the poverty reduction agenda, is the key to improving aid effectiveness.
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Finance & Development June 1, 2002	Crafting Bolivia's PRSP: 5 Points of View Bolivia's poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) was issued in March 2001. Building on an earlier national dialogue, it formulates a four-pronged plan for sustainable growth, social development, institutional strengthening, and eradication of drug (coca) production and trade.
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Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Berg & Krueger	Lifting All Boats: Why Openness Helps Curb Poverty It is important to assess the quality of the evidence regarding the links between openness, growth, and poverty reduction. This article provides a critical survey of recent studies.
Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Peter D. Sutherland	Why We Should Embrace Globalization For the first time, many companies are operating on a global basis. Although this change has raised fears among some people in both industrial and developing countries, it offers new and exciting opportunities for raising living standards worldwide.