An Assessment of The Poverty Marker and Loan classification Systems in International Development Banks with Lessons for the Asian Development Bank

Abstract

This paper reviews the experience of the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, in terms of the efforts made to improve the management and targeting of resources for poverty reduction. In particular, it assesses the extent to which poverty reduction strategies of these international organizations currently involve the targeting of resources to achieve poverty reduction; the systems put in place to ensure that the projects and activities of these organizations are inline with the overall strategic objective and the potential for such systems to ensure that the eventual poverty reduction impact is maximized.