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Asia 2015 Conference report published

20 April 2006

Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty - Report

hilary benn and shaukat aziz at asia 2015 conferenceThe conference report Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty adobe acrobat pdf(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 external hyperlinkAsian Development Bank Annual Meeting in Hyderabad, India, in May 2006, and at the external hyperlink2006 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 theexternal hyperlinkAsia 2015 conference website.

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