Asia 2015 Conference report published
20 April 2006
Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty - Report
The
conference report Asia 2015: Promoting
Growth, Ending Poverty
(990
kb) has been published. It provides a summary of discussions and central
outcomes from the two-day event, held in March 2006 at Lancaster House in
London. Opened by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz, and UK PM Tony
Blair MP, Asia 2015 was co-hosted by DFID, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and
the World Bank, and attended by more than 150 participants from across Asia.
The report highlights that participants:
- examined potential challenges to Asia’s capacity to maintain high rates of growth while continuing to move millions out of extreme poverty
- concluded that aid was still important, but should be based on more mature relationships in future
- agreed that there was a significant non-aid story: one which involves a range of strategic partnerships to meet emerging global and regional challenges, based on shared responsibility and mutual commitments.
The outcomes of Asia 2015 are intended to assist participants at the
forthcoming
Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting in Hyderabad, India, in May
2006, and at the
2006 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank in Singapore in September.
For more about the conference Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty,
including reports on outcomes and video coverage of speakers including UK Prime
Minister Tony Blair, Pakistan Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz and main presenters,
visit theAsia
2015 conference website.
