6.5 Role of the SAARC in Poverty Reduction

The regional's experiment (the South-Asia's own): the 1985's SAARC (the Kathmandu's- secretariat (the seven-then-eight's membership)); the poverty's regional-face (the South-Asia's concentration (the world's poor's plurality (the regional-cooperation's rationale))); The poverty-machinery:1. The SAARC's summits-and-plans: the poverty's summit-line (the Islamabad's-and-the- declarations' poverty-commitments); the SAARC-Decade-of-Poverty-Alleviation's lore (the 2006- declaration's decade-faces); the SAARC-Development-Goals (the SDG's regional-pre-echo (the 2006's MDG-alignment's own)).2. The institutions: the SAARC Development Fund (the SDF (the 2008-establishment (the Thimphu's launch (the three-windows (the social-economic-infrastructure)))); the SAARC Food Bank (the 2007-agreement (the regional-buffer's design (the 2020's-use-era))); the SAARC- Disaster-Management-Centre's face (the 2015's regional-response).3. The critique (the exam's balance): the SAARC's limits (the India-Pakistan's freeze (the summit's postponements (the cooperation's stagnation)); the implementation's gap (the declarations-vs-the-delivery); the Nepal's position (the secretariat's-host (the honest-broker's role (the SAARC's revival-advocacy))).