Poverty Is it an issue in the Pacific?
Lightfoot, Chris; Ryan, Tony; Quitazol, Joy | March 2001
Abstract
The President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Tadao Chino, announced that “fighting poverty and improving living standards of all the people in the region will be the over-arching objective of the ADB” during the 32nd Annual Meeting in Manila in May 1999. This announcement crystallized the focus of ADB’s long-term aim of fostering economic development in its Developing Member Countries (DMCs). As part of its efforts to address poverty issues in the Pacific Developing Member Countries (PDMCs), ADB initiated RETA 5907: Poverty Assessment in PDMCs. This report was prepared under RETA 5907. Given that around 33 percent of ADB’s lending to the PDMCs is from the ADF,3 the poverty focus is particularly appropriate for its operations in the Pacific.
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Lightfoot, Chris; Ryan, Tony; Quitazol, Joy. 2001. Poverty Is it an issue in the Pacific?. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3034. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
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