(5) The reduction of poverty has slowed down.
"Our role and mission remains essentially the same: the reduction of poverty.
"Our concrete goal and objective is the reduction of poverty and the advancement of sustainable development.
In spite of the economic chaos, they had succeeded in engineering a dramatic reduction of poverty.
"The World Bank's primary mission is sustainable development and the reduction of poverty.
The 2002 International Development Act requires all UK aid to have the reduction of poverty as its primary focus.
Gary MacDougal (Op-Ed, Oct. 28) leaves the impression that welfare reform has resulted in a reduction of poverty.
"It will support economic growth and the reduction of poverty and will help modernise the national economy," he added.
The most important measure of impact on development, said Kituyi, was the reduction of poverty in Africa.
What matters is the human effect, and in that regard nothing matters more than the reduction of poverty.
Its main message is that we should not be satisfied with a half-way reduction of poverty for the next generation, as previously agreed in 2000.
