Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity: Report on Activities in the Year 2000 and an Action Plan in Areas of Special Emphasis
By Poverty and Inequality Unit (11/01, En, Es)
The Eighth General Replenishment and the Bank?s Institutional Strategy rank poverty reduction and the promotion of social equity in Latin America and the Caribbean among the IDB?s principal areas of action. The Eighth Replenishment mandated that the Bank was to be active on a number of fronts, which included analysis of the determinants of poverty, improved poverty data, the countries? poverty-reduction strategies and social equity enhancement.
These Bank priorities are consistent with the commitment undertaken by all countries in the region to this issue, a commitment reaffirmed at the highest level at the recent Summit of the Americas in Quebec. There, the Heads of State and of Government of the region committed themselves to further efforts to reach international development goals, especially the goal of reducing the percentage of those living in extreme poverty in 1990 by 50% by the year 2015.
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