Chapter 2
THE UNLDC III DEVELOPMENT TARGETS [Pdf, 22pp., 616KB]

1. Introduction
2. Growth and investment targets
3. Poverty reduction goals
4. Human development targets
5. Transport and communications infrastructure development targets
6. ODA targets for donor countries
7. Progress towards graduation from LDC status
8. Conclusion
   Notes
   References

Part Two
ESCAPING THE POVERTY TRAP

Chapter 1
THE NATURE AND DYNAMICS OF POVERTY IN THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES [Pdf, 37pp., 770KB]

1. Introduction
2. The approach of the Report and its rationale
   1. The focus on consumption poverty
   2. The choice of $1-a-day and $2-a-day international poverty lines
   3. The use of national-accounts-consistent poverty estimates
3. The poverty situation in the LDCs in the late 1990s
   1. Average levels of poverty in LDCs in a comparative perspective
   2. A poverty map for the LDCs in 1995-1999
4. The dynamics of poverty in the LDCs
   Annex to Chapter 1
   Notes
   References

Chapter 2
GENERALIZED POVERTY, DOMESTIC RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH [Pdf, 33pp., 697KB]

1. Introduction
2. The long-run relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction
3. Generalized poverty, domestic resource mobilization and low-level equilibrium
4. Generalized poverty, population growth and environmental degradation
   1. Patterns of poverty, population growth and environmental resource use
   2. The downward spiral of impoverishment and environmental degradation
5. Conclusion
   Notes
   References