This document discusses several questions related to poverty reduction strategies, including how experiences like education and voluntary work impact support for poverty reduction, the effects of youth work programs on young people in poverty, how countries can address low pay without causing unemployment, effective skills training models for employment, the impacts of self-employment and small business on poverty, and the effects of regulations and social obligations on prices for those in poverty. It also questions how consumer markets could better serve people in poverty, the impacts of different social benefit models, and the potential roles of various taxation models in successful anti-poverty strategies.

1. Do certain experiences (such as schooling or voluntary work) shapepeople’s
supportfor poverty reduction?
What evidence is there that youth work can havea positive impact on outcomes
for young people in poverty?
What can countries do to combat low pay without causing unemployment in
sectors that cannot move abroad?
What is an effective skills-based employmentsystemfor poverty reduction?
Does setting up as self-employed or in a small business help to reduce poverty?
How do environmental and social regulations or obligations affect prices for those
in poverty?
How can consumer markets be made to work better for people in poverty?
What would be the impacts on poverty of different models of morecontributory
benefit schemes?
What could be the relative contribution of income, consumption and asset
taxation to a successfulanti-poverty strategy?