People vs. poverty: Powering through partnership

Poverty continues to outwit the means to eradicate it. Despite post-World War focus on fighting poverty across the globe, poverty with its manifestations has continued to chart a distinct course. The adoption of the UN Millennium Development Goals only underscores the reality that the war on poverty has been far from won. As forces of globalization blur national boundaries, the need for fighting poverty has become serious than ever before. Innovative financing mechanisms engaging diverse stakeholders for developing poverty reduction strategies have been engineered as possible neo-institutional structures to counter the world's most daunting problems.