NEDA calls for concerted effort to cut poverty

A unit of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) urged the relevant agencies of the government, the private sector and the poor to take a concerted effort to intervene in reducing poverty in the country to the target 18 percent to 20 percent range by 2016.

The initiative should ensure the factors limiting the poor’s participation in economic growth are addressed at the provincial level, the NEDA Social Development