13-15th October 2003

This three-day event on sustainable poverty alleviation, PRSPs and debt relief was initiated by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The interesting presentations of the program were held in Budapest by highly ranked officials of international development-, and donor organizations, ministries and other institutes:
* World Bank
* UNDP
* German Development Bank
* German Society for Technical Cooperation
* European Association of Development Research and Training
Institutes
* German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
* Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* EU Commission.
Lectures with the following titles and topics were given by the numerous guest presenters:
* Overview of the Hungarian Development Policy and Develop-
ment Assistance
* The Role of the World Bank in the Context of EU Enlargement
* The Role of PRSPs in the Shift of Development Strategies and
Paradigms
* PRSPs and Debt Relief (HIPIC) from a Bilateral Perspective
* Major Features of Poverty Reduction Programmes, Including
Governance, Human Development and the Productive Sector
* The Monetary Issues of PRSPs
* Financing Tools for PRSPs
* The European perspective in Albania and Western Balkans.
PRSP and Stabilisation and Association process
* PRSP Case studyies:
- Africa: Mozambique
- Caucasus: Armenia
- South America: Bolívia