Enhancing Grassroots Innovation
Competitiveness for Poverty Alleviation
(EGICPA 2012)
“Scouting, Research, Development and Commercialization of Grassroots Innovation”
October 16-18, 2012
Yogyakarta - Indonesia
Call for Paper
World Bank and IMF’s latest update on progress toward the 2015 targets reveals that two-
thirds of developing countries are on track or close to meeting the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). The rapid economic development – to some extent – has contributed to an
accelerated decline in absolute poverty. The number of people living on less than US $1.25 a
day is projected to be 883 million in 2015, compared with 1.4 billion in 2005 and 1.8 billion in
1990. The progress, however, is achieved with a cost of increased inequality, leaving the poor
unable to benefit from development and becoming increasingly isolated, Not only
geographically, but also socially and economically.