PEGNet

otivation underlying this initiative was to foster research cooperation between German academic institutions working on poverty issues in developing countries and to intensify the exchange of knowledge between academia and development cooperation. Recognizing that the magnitude and quality of economic growth will have an important bearing on achieving the Millennium Development Goals, PEGNet’s research agenda is focusing on selected topical and methodological research areas. These are expected to have a strong leverage as regards sustainable poverty reduction and/or to provide a significant contribution towards evaluating and monitoring progress in poverty reduction, with the overriding objective of identifying pathways out of poverty in the developing world.