The major lesson we learned about reducing poverty was what I started with. It is more than just an economic condition. We did start with that economic focus and quickly found that it's as much a social condition as an economic condition. As such, the strategy we need to employ is more than just a matter of increasing income. If it was just a matter of increasing income, there are a lot of policy measures that could be taken. They would solve the economic dimension of poverty, perhaps, but they wouldn't solve the broader context of poverty.
More importantly, I don't believe they would get at preventing poverty. As some of the other panellists have mentioned, people fundamentally exist in community, and when we see community breaking down, it leaves us vulnerable to poverty. Poverty reduction from our perspective—and this is one of the key lessons—is as much about strengthening the bonds of community as it is about providing income support. When you do that, you prevent poverty and you tackle income, but it's almost a by-product of a larger strategy.