1.0 Introduction
Poverty eradication has reemerged as an important film on the agenda of global
development. Changes in the political and ideological ctiina c during the last two
decades pose major challenges to how anti-poverty strategies arc conceptualized and
implemented (Sen, 1999).
According to the Human Developniciit Rc uw 2003, the number of people living
in extreme poverty has increased by almost 100 million while total world income has
increased by an average of 2.5 percent annually since the 1980s. At least 54 countries
are poorer now than two decades ago. More than 800 million people suffer from
malnutrition; more than 13 million children have died house of diagonal discuss and,
every year, over half a million women die during pregnancy or childbirth.