Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Poverty -- World Bank. -- Diagnosis and reflections on poverty reduction polices : Critical review of world banks stance on poverty reduction, poverty, inequality of conditions and inequality of opportunities - chances and risks of new strategies, lessons to be learnt from methods of regulating poverty in Europe, urban poverty and recession in sub Saharan Africa- elements for and assessment, voice of poor through quantitative surveys -- Scope and limitation of new international initiatives : Participatory process towards establishing new relationships between stakeholders, poverty reduction strategy papers, poverty reduction in Mali- PRSP makes a difference, debt relief or aid reform, HIPC initiative and poverty reduction -- Monitoring and evaluating system : existing systems for monitoring poverty- weaknesses of usual household surveys, different approaches to measuring poverty in Europe- LDGs, two original poverty monitoring tools- 1-2-3 surveys and rural observatories, evaluating poverty reduction policies- contribution of micro simulation techniques