Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Poor -- Business and Economics -- Social services -- Economic Management -- Reducing poverty- two part strategy -- Analyzing country policy : effectiveness of economic management, adequacy of social service, extent and reliability of social safety nets, benefits of periodic assessments -- Designing assistance strategies : General principles, country examples -- Developing an information base : Incomes of poor, access to social services -- Implementation : Anlysis and assistance, improving the information base, follow up tasks, other implications