Reducing Poverty Sustaining Growth

This volume summarizes more than 100 case studies prepared especially for this groundbreaking conference. As you proceed through the agenda over the next two days, we invite you to consult the summaries as a quick way of gaining multiple perspectives on the cases under discussion in the conference sessions. Reviewing cases in the same sector, country, or region as the featured case may lead you to unexpected insights.
Section 1 offers summaries of 13 country case studies deemed especially noteworthy by the conference organizers because progress reducing poverty has been achieved at the country level. The succeeding sections present the rest of the cases by sector/program (as defined in the agenda). Within each sector/program, cases are presented alphabetically by country.