Determinants of pro-poor growth: How to foster high growth that does not lead to rising inequality and to what extent it differ from the determinants of growth in general

Determinants of pro-poor agricultural growth

Global Imbalances: How can international macroeconomic imbalances and global trade and economic policies be realigned to favor the poor and hungry?

Fiscal Policies: How can tax and fiscal policies be designed to improve the welfare of the poor and hungry?

What will it cost to achieve MDG1

Social protection to reduce vulnerability and enhance growth: What is the role of social protection in improving the welfare of the poor? How does investing in social protection augment growth?

Conditional Cash Transfers: What has been learned on how to implement conditional cash transfer schemes? How can conditional cash transfer schemes be implemented in environments where they have currently not been?

Social Security: How can social security schemes be designed for low-income countries to effectively provide for the poorest?

Social Security: What can developing and emerging countries learn from social security approaches of OECD countries

Health Insurance: What insurance schemes can reduce the impact of shocks on the poorest and help them deal with the aftermath? In particular, how can health insurance be designed for the poorest?

Insurance Markets: How can informal insurance networks be strengthened, and insurance and savings products developed, to help poor households manage income risk?

Investments to support hunger reduction

Investments to support poverty reduction

Mechanism: What kind of method and mechanism to improve the effectiveness of policies targeting the poor? How to adjust the targeting mechanism according to the changing situation?

Effects of rural communities' participation in China's development

Infrastructure and the poorest

Government specific poverty reduction program: How should government make and implement specific poverty reduction program to effectively transfer resources to the poor?

Property Rights: What interventions have been effective at securing and increasing the assets of the rural poor, particularly women? What are appropriate land reform strategies? How can water rights of the poor best be secured?

Climate Change: Pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation

Improvement of kids' nourishment and the degree of social security to the poor

Microfinance: What type of microfinance interventions are needed to enable the poorest to improve their asset base?

Resource integration and poverty reduction in extremely poor regions: resource integration in specially poor region, poverty reduction strategies of extended plots development - Guangxi Dongbafeng assembly welfare