Sustainable Development, Environment and Poverty Nexus
Jalal, K.F. | December 1993
Abstract
Tne Asian Development Bank's January 1989 External Panel Report "The Asian Development Bank in the 1990s" recommended that the overall goai of the Bank for the 1990s should be the. improvement of living conditions in DMCs through income growth, progress in social conditions, and protection of the environment, and that the Bank should assign highest prior:ty to assisting the most disadvantaged and vulnerable social groups.
At the 1992 Annual Meeting or the Bank held in Hong Kong, the issues of environment protection and poverty alleviation received considerable attention, with the Bank's Governors indicating a desire to see a stronger linkage between poverty alleviation and the Bank’s program on environment. In fact. President Kimimasa Taruiruzu, in his dosing statement to the .Annual Meeting, observed: Tne issue of poverty' emerged as a major theme of our meeting—alongside that of resource mobilization and the environment. Problems concerning population arid social development were emphasized and the need to enhance the role of women in development was wideiv voiced.
Citation
Jalal, K.F.. 1993. Sustainable Development, Environment and Poverty Nexus. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3174. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
0117-5492
Keywords
Work Environment
Urban Environment
Social Environment
Regulatory Environments
Marine Environment
International Environmental Relations
Institutional Environment Assessment
Global Environment
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental Strategy
Environmental Services
Environmental Resources
Environmental Management and Planning
Environmental Issues
Environmental Guidelines
Environmental Effects
Environment and Pollution Prevention
Environmental Control
Environmental Technology
Land Development
Forestry Development
Fishery Development
Environmental Statistics
Environmental Planning
Environmental Management
Environmental Education
Environmental Capacity
Pollution Control
Nature Protection
Environmental Conservation
Air quality indexes
Ecological risk assessment
Environmental impact evaluation
Analysis of environmental impact
Environmental toxicology
Health risk assessment
Rain and rainfall
Acid precipitation
Ozone-depleting substance mitigation
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Prevention of pollution
Air quality
Air quality management
Pollution
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