The UK's Department for International Development (DFID), in collaboration with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, is holding a conference on March 6-7, 2006 in London to focus attention on building new forms of partnership to eradicate poverty in Asia.  For more information visit. www.asia2015conference.org.

The conference brought together policymakers and thinkers, mostly from Asia, to look at the changing face of development in Asia over the next decade and implications for the international community's response.

 More information: http://www.asia2015conference.org/

 Closing Remarks, Praful Patel, World Bank South Asia vice president

 Making Poverty History in Asia by 2015 (Op-Ed) by Shantayanan Devarajan and Homi Kharas, World Bank Regional Chief Economists for South Asia, and East Asia and Pacific, respectively, March 2006.