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Just Published! Theme Issue of Development Policy Review Growth and Poverty in Asia: Where Next? Guest Edited by John Farrington and Mark Robinson ================================================ ABOUT THIS ISSUE Asia is the world's fastest-growing region. It also contains the largest number of poor people. Poverty reduction has been driven by export-oriented growth, but potential shortages of energy and raw materials, threats of financial instability and trade constraints mean there is no guarantee that growth can be sustained. Ensuring equitable inclusion in growth processes becomes particularly important with rapidly changing rural-urban dynamics and the breakdown of traditional social security mechanisms. Provision also has to be made for those areas and individuals who cannot easily engage in growth. This theme issue addresses questions of this kind which are crucial for growth and poverty reduction in Asia. What role will international relations play in resolving these questions? The theme issue argues that conventional aid relations will remain important only in limited contexts, and that the new imperative is towards jointly addressing shared agendas in spheres such as trade, environment, use of natural resources, disaster prediction and management, and security. How, and how far, aid resources can contribute to this imperative remains largely unresolved. ================================================ FREE ARTICLEES We are pleased to offer two articles from this issue free online. Simply click on the links below to read them: Introduction: Meeting the Challenges to Growth and Poverty Reduction John Farrington and Mark Robinson http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00338. x The Future of Development Partnerships in Asia: Mapping the Agenda to 2015 Simon Maxwell and Mark Robinson http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00343. x ================================================ TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 24, Supplement 1 Free Access! Introduction: Meeting the Challenges to Growth and Poverty Reduction John Farrington and Mark Robinson http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00338. x Growth, Poverty Reduction and Development Assistance in Asia: Options and Prospects John Farrington and Jeremy Clarke http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00339. x Prospects and Challenges for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia John Humphrey http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00340. x Structural Change, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia: Pathways to Inclusive Development Sarah Cook http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00341. x Human Development and Service Delivery in Asia Nazmul Chaudhury and Shantayanan Devarajan http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00342. x Free Access! The Future of Development Partnerships in Asia: Mapping the Agenda to 2015 Simon Maxwell and Mark Robinson http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00343. x ================================================ For more information about Development Policy Review visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/dpr Don't forget you can register for free table of contents email alerts at www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/dpr Rebecca Wray Senior Marketing Controller Blackwell Publishing Ltd 9600 Garsington Road Oxford OX4 2DQ Direct Tel: +44 (0)1865 476300 Direct Fax: +44 (0)1865 471300 [log in to unmask] www.blackwellpublishing.com -- ---------------------- Dr Michael Tribe Visiting Senior Research Fellow Bradford Centre for International Development University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP United Kingdom Tel: (0)1274 233978 Fax: (0)1274 235280 E-mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bcid/homepage.html ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------