One of its major goals is on incorporating poor peoples' own experiences of poverty and responses to it. This will be needed to illuminate the nature of risk and vulnerability, for example, as well as to investigate in detail the processes of sharing in development. For many individuals and organisations, this discussion is an opportunity to voice their comments and the organisers have strongly encouraged a diversity of input from researchers, civil society groups and others, especially from the South, on the basis of their views and experience on poverty, inequality and related issues. The discussion will be valuable as a forum in which the participants can exchange views on such a critical subject, and influential document, among themselves and with staff from the World Bank. This Report is about actions to attack poverty.
Gender equity is the sine qua non of a poverty reduction strategy.
Global-level actions such as research in health or management of capital volatility are crucial. Rapid economic growth, brought about by macroeconomic stability and minimal government interference in markets and international trade, is at the core of poverty reduction. Labor-intensive growth and investment in basic social services provide the strategy for poverty reduction. Rapid integration into world markets is good neither for growth nor for poverty reduction. Rich countries need to moderate their economic growth and consumption, to minimize environmental damage affecting the poor.