Reducing Poverty and Promoting Social Protection

This issue of the Social policy paper series presents three papers. The first of these focuses on the progress made and constraints encountered in the regional implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration, adopted at the World Summit for Social Development; and the Agenda for Action on Social Development in the Agenda for Action in the ESCAP region. The second paper describes current approaches in defining the concepts of pvoerty and vulnerability, particularly in the context of development assistance programmes. The third and final paper discusses promoting social protection and some strategic options. It provides a brief description of the current approaches to social protection in the context of reducing poverty and vulnerability.United Nations: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is the author of 'Reducing Poverty and Promoting Social Protection' with ISBN 9789211200683 and ISBN 9211200687.