Strategy for Poverty Reduction

The strategy as proposed, aims at attacking poverty in three ways:

1. Promoting opportunity for the poor

2. Facilitating empowerment, of the poor, and
3. Enhancing security of the poor.

Promoting Opportunity

a) Encouraging effective private investment

b) Expanding into international markets.
c) Building the assets of poor people.
d) Addressing asset inequalities across gender, ethnic, racial, and social divides.
e) Getting infrastructure and knowledge to poor areas-rural and urban.

Facilitating Empowerment

a) Laying the political and legal basis for inclusive development

b) Creating public administrations that foster growth and equity.
c) Promoting inclusive decentralization and community development.
d) Promoting gender equity.
e) Tackling social barriers.
f) Supporting poor people’s social capital

Enhancing Security

a) Formulating a modular approach to helping poor people manage risk.

b) Developing national programs to prevent, prepare for, and respond to macro
shocks-financial and natural.
c) Designing national systems of social risk management that are also pro-growth.
d) Addressing civil conflict.
e) Tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic.