Asia can eradicate poverty in a generation

DFID News Press Release Asia can eradicate poverty in a generation: "ASIA CAN ERADICATE POVERTY IN A GENERATION
Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty Conference announced
Lancaster House, London, 6-7 March 2006

The Department for International Development (DFID), in collaboration with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, today announces details of a conference to be held on 6-7 March 2006 in London to focus attention on building new forms of partnership to eradicate poverty in Asia.
Asia has raised more people out of poverty than any other region at any time in history. Growth has been strong, and though currently two out of three of the world's poorest people live in Asia, by 2015 this could fall to one in three if current trends continue. With continued efforts, it is possible to eradicate poverty in Asia in the next generation. Yet Asia still faces huge challenges in nutrition, health, education, social exclusion, water and sanitation and almost 1.1 billion people still live on less than $1 a day. "/.../