He said a long-term framework from donors that is not subject to short-term political change is required, as development is too important to be affected by frequent policy shifts. She concluded by supporting initiatives within the framework of the existing network of organizations to which IISD belongs and endorsed a focus on sustainable livelihoods, as it builds on previous IISD work. The 36th Session in 2003 will focus on "Population education and development." One speaker noted linkages between poverty and population growth and stated that having 2.5 billion people on less than two dollars per day was unacceptable. She said institutional factors can enable this as a next step and called for institutions that empower people. During this period, however, the strategies and approaches to tackle the problem have changed. On conditionality, he suggested that previous conditions still remain and the PRSPs may become the "new high conditionality," and called instead for "co-conditionality" and new partnerships. The Committee on Trade and Environment is scheduled to meet from 13-14 February, 27-28 June and 30-31 October. He said PRSPs are instruments that have some promise in that they can lead developing countries to achieve goals equitably and effectively in their own way. He concluded that the literature does demonstrate some linkages, but that the connections are complex and that some commonly held views are not proven. An Intergovernmental PrepCom for the event will be held from 5-9 February 2001. He drew attention to several upcoming high-level meetings, including the Summit of the Americas, the G-8 meeting, the Ten Year Review of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, the OECD Development Assistance Committee and the Financing for Development initiative. Yet, it is becoming more difficult to rely on manufacturing to create jobs. He suggested this might be due to a focus on health indicators and the complexity of the rural poverty/ natural resource management nexus, which involves context-specific and situational factors. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING: The 2001 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is scheduled for 25-30 January 2001 in Davos, Switzerland. He suggested supporting partners in developing countries that can become domestic advocates, as well as community groups in order to build social capital at the local level. Second, we cannot assume that development and the path towards poverty eradication is steady – it will be beset by volatility, by bumps, by shocks, which call for sustained attention to risk-informed approaches to poverty reduction. Jacques Gérin, Chair of IISDs Board of Directors, expressed his appreciation to IISD Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Bill Glanville and Senior Economist/Economic Instruments Director Anantha Kumar Duraiappah for their work in organizing this workshop. Markandya stated that Stiglitzs vision requires fleshing out with detailed operational guidance. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a bold commitment to finish what we started, and end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. Sinopec's Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation and Pairing Program Lifts Eight Counties Out of Poverty in Response to UN Sustainable Development Goals … The theme for the meeting will be "Population, environment and development." The MDGs have formed the central reference point for global development efforts since they were established as international targets in 2000. On the timing of reaching poverty reduction objectives, one participant highlighted the importance of resolving the tension between accountability in the short-term with the essentially long-term nature of objectives. He also calls for: a strong, competitive, stable and efficient private sector through a sound legal and regulatory environment; a stable macroeconomic framework that reduces vulnerability to inevitable shocks associated with global engagement; public provision of health, infrastructure and education services, as well as an enabling environment for private sector involvement in providing these services; and openness of developed country markets to developing country exports. Source: Report of the Secretary-General, "Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals", E/2017/66 Goal 1 calls for an end to poverty in all its manifestations by 2030. For more information contact: WTO, tel: +41-22-739-5111; e-mail: [email protected]; Internet: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/meets.doc, 18TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS: This meeting will take place from 12-16 February 2001 in Nairobi, Kenya. He concluded by stressing the need to mainstream poverty and environmental issues in day-to-day economic decision-making, as well as to include poverty issues in environmental policy making and vice-versa. Workshop Chair Maurice Strong, Senior Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, noted that poverty is an "ancient" and enduring problem, but one that need no longer be accepted as inevitable given the unprecedented prosperity and opportunities for wealth creation available today. The 18th Session of the Commission on Human Settlements will meet in Nairobi, Kenya from 12-16 February 2001. Sinopec's Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation and Pairing Program Lifts Eight Counties Out of Poverty in Response to UN Sustainable Development Goals 02.12.2020 14:10:00 Panelists comments: Workshop panelist Keith Bezanson, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, noted the need to draw historical lessons when considering PRSPs and sustainable development. In the plenary discussion, participants considered the issue of progress on tackling poverty during the past half century, stressing the need to make the current agenda more operational. Another participant cautioned against rushing the development of PRSPs and against a simultaneous speeding up of lending. On poverty and sustainable development, she said the issues are linked through the concept of sustainable livelihoods. Panelists comments: Workshop panelist Roy Culpeper, President of the North South Institute, welcomed Kanchan Chopras emphasis on local initiatives in the current context of increasing global integration and local disintegration. That is why the central pledge of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the aspiration of “Leaving no one behind.” Unlike the MDGs, when the target was to reduce poverty by half, the objective now is to eradicate poverty all together by 2030 – as expressed in the Sustainable Development Goal 1. He commented on the PRSPs lack of focus on sustainable development and called for more research on relationships between PRSPs and their compatibility with securing long-term needs. She said IISD should move beyond the issues of causality between poverty and environmental degradation and definitions of sustainable development. Excellencies, And, third, active policies of inclusion are needed for segments of the population that have been systematically excluded, with a special focus on reducing gender gaps. Yet, over the last decade or so, we have seen a breakdown in the relationship between increases in labor productivity and improvements in the earnings of a median household. More information is available online at: http://www.un.org/rio%2b10/. This meeting will be held ten years after the World Summit for Children. In fact, there is no historical precedent in history for sharp reductions in poverty and growth in incomes that is not characterized by an evolution of the economy from agriculture, to manufacturing, to services. Thus, policies that prevent such losses will benefit the poor. She said social entrepreneurs bring together different forms of capital that can result in successful experiences on the ground and cited the example of micro-finance initiatives in Bangladesh. To take another example, in Latin America, while the annual average of people that escaped poverty during the period 2003 to 2008 reached almost 8 million people, following the global economic crisis, this reduction slowed down to an annual average of around 5 million people from 2009 to 2014. Ladies and gentlemen. In both developed and developing countries, political processes interacted with economic ones in ways that led to the accumulation of income at the top - including by weakening the bargaining power of trade unions and deregulating the financial sector, weakening social protection where it existed or undertaking fiscal policies (both on the taxation and on the spending sides) that made transfers for those “left behind” more difficult. Again, she highlighted the coming together of stakeholders from different institutional sectors of society as the key to success. He stressed that the programme should not be judged based on the preliminary reports and first impressions. Excerpts from Sustainable Developments may be used in other publications with appropriate academic citation. Another speaker highlighted that the costs and time required to set-up institutions are high. He also noted that development issues are expanding into areas such as trade, multilateral environmental agreements and market access, and said government departments need to work together on these issues. Finally, participants heard concluding comments by IISD Board member Angela Cropper. 1.1. Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Speech at the 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum on “Targeted Poverty Alleviation and 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda” - Beijing, China These groups of countries are vulnerable in part because of their narrow and shallow productive capacities, limited trade products and partners, economic concentration on a few sectors, and vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Climate change and environmental degradation add to the challenges. The ILO estimates that this year 1.4 billion people worldwide (42 per cent of total employment) face vulnerable employment conditions. Since the late 1990s, the typical family in several developed countries has not shared in the gains of expanding economies. He called for a focus on practical ideas that are useful to policy makers and practitioners. SESSION OVERVIEW: Workshop Chair Maurice Strong and the workshops panelists provided an overview of key issues raised during the meetings first session. According to the Multidimensional Poverty Index, which measures the nature and magnitude of deprivations in health, education and living standards at the household level, 1.6 billion people were living in multidimensional poverty in 2016, which is nearly twice the number of people living in extreme poverty measured by income alone. The road map towards sustainable development outlined above points to the complexity of the system within which problems of . First, environmental degradation would increase the number of people in extreme poverty by 1.9 billion. Kanchan Chopra concluded by highlighting issues for further discussion, including: whether a meaningful definition of social capital for poverty alleviation needs to distinguish between formal and informal institutions; what the appropriate degree of decentralization is; what the role of human capital formation is; how social entrepreneurs emerge; why there is a dearth of informal social capital in the urban context; and what role formal legal, financial and market institutions can play in sustainable urban development. It will review and appraise progress made on the implementation of the outcome of the second UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), which was held in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996. This accounts for the dynamics that have led to increasing economic inequality within many countries, or that have kept it high in others. We need only look at the devastating impact of the recent hurricanes in many Caribbean islands to be reminded of the vulnerabilities to shocks that so many around the world still face. To sum up, eradicating and ensuing that no one is left behind demands that we consider three key aspects. The progress on poverty reduction in China is a big part of the overall global progress in lifting people out of poverty. The authors can be contacted at their electronic mail addresses and at tel: +1-212-644-0204. For more information contact: Population Division; fax: +1-212-963-2147; Internet: http://www.undp.org/popin/unpopcom.htm, CSD-9: The Ninth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development will convene in New York from 16-27 April 2001. Discussions and conclusions from this meeting are expected to contribute to ongoing efforts to address poverty alleviation and sustainable development issues in relevant organizations and agencies both in Canada and internationally, as well as international processes such as the Financing for Development initiative and the Ten Year Review of the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 2002 ("Rio+10"). One participant made the point that poverty alleviation is fundamentally bottom-up and situational, while another commented on the evolution of the formal and informal sectors, noting that they may merge, or may develop independently in a way that leads to tensions or conflict between the two sectors. It is vulnerable to shocks and crises, be it economic crises, disasters caused by natural hazards, the impacts of climate change, disease outbreaks, and conflicts. I express my appreciation to our national partner, China’s State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development for collaborating with the United Nations System in China to organize this event. The workshop aimed to address strategies and approaches to deal with the ongoing problem of widespread poverty, within the context of sustainable development. Following this, panelists Keith Bezanson and Roy Culpeper offered closing remarks and CIDA President Len Good presented his observations on the workshop. However, he added that during the same period the absolute number living in poverty remained constant at 1.23 billion, while world GDP rose by over 50%. For more information contact: Maude Lichtenstern, World Economic Forum; tel: +41-22-869-1210; e-mail [email protected]; Internet: http://weforum.org/ or http://www.ac.com/ideas/wef/Davos_2001.html, THIRD INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF ECONOMISTS ON GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES: This meeting will be held in Havana, Cuba, from 29 January- 2 February 2001. Under a severe “environmental disaster” scenario, which envisions vast deforestation and land degradation, dramatic declines in biodiversity and accelerated extreme weather events, some 2.7 billion more people would live in extreme poverty than under the “base case” scenario – basically, a linear projection of current poverty reduction trends. Sinopec's Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation and Pairing Program Lifts Eight Counties Out of Poverty in Response to UN Sustainable Development Goals ... needed … Panelist Roy Culpeper highlighted the message of creating trust at the local, national and international levels. In particular, he said evidence that the poor are more damaging to their environment than the wealthy is not conclusive. The free Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader allows you to view, navigate, and She stressed the role of the international donor community and local non-governmental organizations as brokers in the vertical integration between the micro- and macro-levels and said elements enabling scaling-up should be built into demonstration projects. Institutionalizing Learning in Rural Poverty Alleviation Initiatives (Irene Guijt, J. Berdegue, G. Escobar, E. Ramirez and J. Keitaanranta) 106 From Theory to Practice of Sustainable Development. Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The issue was highlighted by Joseph Stiglitz of the World Bank in his Prebisch Lecture at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1998. The Education Challenge (Bernardo Rivera and A.F. The idea of social capital comprised of both formal and informal institutions and interactions was a major component of his approach. Noting progress during the past century in addressing structural and infrastructure obstacles to poverty alleviation, he said the challenge now is to develop strategies to employ the immense wealth creation potential developed in western society and being emulated elsewhere to eradicate poverty. He highlighted the need to understand better the process of adaptation of institutions to cope with such changes, and suggested there are common grounds with Stiglitzs proposed strategy for development. He also noted the need to introduce the poverty dimension in negotiations on international environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity. For more information contact: Financing for Development Coordinating Secretariat, United Nations Headquarters, New York, Harris Gleckman, tel: +1-212-963-4690; e-mail: [email protected] or Federica Pietracci, tel: +1-212-963-8497; e-mail: [email protected]; Internet: http://www.un.org/esa/ffd, WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (RIO+10): This UN Summit for the 10-year review of progress in implementing the outcome of the UN Conference on Environment and Development will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002. And when violent armed conflict breaks, that is poverty reduction in reverse. First, as important as the rate of economic growth, is the way in which the benefits of growth are shared across society. Keynote speaker Kanchan Chopra stressed the need for empowerment of people at the local level in order to achieve poverty reduction. On the second case study focusing on breaking the link between environmental degradation and migration in a community in Western India, she outlined an initiative to create property rights to common resources. He said his aim was to consider how the concept of sustainable development fits into the vision for development articulated by Joseph Stiglitz of the World Bank in his Prebisch lecture at UNCTAD in 1998. Box 30030, Nairobi, Kenya; tel: +254-2-62-1234; fax: +254-2-62-4266/ 67; Internet: http://www.unchs.org/, 39TH SESSION OF THE UN COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: This meeting will take place from 13-23 February 2001 in New York. One participant said lessons learned, particularly over the past 15 years, include the importance of country driven/owned strategies, inclusion of civil society, and coordination between all partners. Speech at the 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum on “Targeted Poverty Alleviation and 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda” - Beijing, China Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen. Globally in 2014, 73.3 million youth were unemployed. The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. SUMMARY OF THE WORKSHOP ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: EXPLORING THE LINKS23 JANUARY 2001. Discussion: In the ensuing discussion, several participants expressed disappointment and concern at the lack of environmental requirements in the PRSPs, stating that they ignore existing initiatives. An important way to ‘govern the borders’ is the development of model villages. Participants also highlighted: the need for community participation; the importance of tailoring solutions to meet specific local needs; the harmful consequences of the rise in military conflicts and the need for stability in tackling poverty; the benefit of a strong judicial system in ensuring good governance; the positive experience of using micro-financing to allow those in poverty to become agents for change; the negative role of donor coordination, which one speaker described as a "self-serving club"; and the need to increase the capacity within developing countries to deal with aid coordination. This session will focus on: atmosphere; energy/transport; information for decision making and participation; and international cooperation for an enabling environment. During the afternoon sessions, workshop participants considered an overview of a sustainable development framework elaborated by IISD and engaged in plenary and panel discussions on key issues raised during the meeting. It can support poverty alleviation, economic growth, and biodiversity conservation and contribute to key global agreements and frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For instance, with rapid economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific, the proportion of people living on less than $1.90 a day fell from 60 percent in 1990 to 3.5 percent in 2013. He emphasized the need to build trust and capacity among people at the village level, and said sustainable development is a simple concept that encompasses efficient resource use, equity, environmental harmony and empowerment, and supported the concept of sustainable livelihoods as an effective operational approach. For the last two years, with economic conditions deteriorating, in part due to the decrease in commodity prices, it is estimated that the net number of people living in poverty increased by 1.4 million a year. However, in spite of some progress in addressing poverty, the problem remains. He added that the incoming administration would create a new situation and possibly some new opportunities. Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty declined from 36 per cent in 1990 to 10 per cent in 2015. Pointing to divides among the poor and the need for security at the community level, he stressed that participation and ownership are difficult to achieve. For more information contact: Zehra Aydin-Sipos, Major Groups Focal Point, Division for Sustainable Development; tel: +1-212-963-8811; e-mail: [email protected]; Internet: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd9/csd9_2001.htm#, CSD-10 (PREPCOM): The Tenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development is expected to convene in New York from 30 April 2 May 2001 to serve as the Preparatory Committee for the Ten-year Review of UNCED ("Rio+10"). For more information contact: UNCHS, P.O. One of the most important items on the General Assembly agenda in September will be adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2016-2030. He outlined participants comments so far, noting statements on donor agencies having their own agendas, concerns that those in poverty need access to information, and an emphasis on the role of institutions within communities. He stressed that conditionality has not been eliminated, as funds will be transferred only under credible PRSPs and governments will be held accountable to undertakings contained in PRSPs. On the role of donors, one speaker said donor countries still play an active role in implementation of strategies and the greatest challenge is for donors to not take action in order to provoke local action. She also called for consideration of how to link PRSPs and the sustainable development framework, suggesting that IISD should provide balanced policy advice on PRSPs. 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