A second key element in our strategy is targeting of the policy to reduce poverty. Like some other countries, we have a history of increasing welfare payments without making a distinction between those who are able, or unable, to work, and without applying an income test for welfare entitlement.
The new policy of reducing poverty will have to target the poorest and least empowered population, and let them have a dominant role in shaping their future. To evaluate the progress we are making in poverty reduction we add to the traditional relative definition of the poverty line a need-based (absolute) definition of poverty.