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The term "sustainable development" refers to the developmental activity undertaken to achieve the present generation needs without compromising with the needs of up-coming generation. Sustainable development ensures the well-being of individual by integrating social development, economic growth, and environmental conservation and protection. The over population, wide spread inequality, acute poverty, a great shortage of safe drinking water, limitless consumption of energy, endless deforestation is the great challenges before the idea of sustainable development. The present paper is an evidence based paper based on the secondary data collected from research journals, books, magazines and concerned websites. The aim of the paper is to focus on the strategies for sustainable development and the social work approach for achieving the sustainable development in the present and the future society. Through devising the strategies for sustainable development this paper tries to build an interrelationship between the present and the future generation, to attain the sustainable development following probable strategies can be useful-giving importance to input efficient technology, using environmental friendly source of energy, promoting more and more renewable source of energy, developing organic farming, promoting waste recycling, more than all this taking an pledge of conserving the natural resources for the younger generations of tomorrow's world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China using the Chinese Household Income Project surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing lower poverty in 2002 than in 1988 irrespective of the poverty line chosen. Incomes of the poorest fell during 1988–95, contributing to a rise in inequality. However, inequality has been fairly constant thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex, and Communist Party membership. Income from government anti-poverty programs has little impact on poverty, which has fallen almost entirely due to overall economic growth rather than redistribution. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This article assesses the prospects of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving income poverty in Asia, and identifies policy priorities. The main findings are: (1) in East Asia, the actual growth rate exceeds that required to achieve this goal, while in South Asia, it falls short of the required rate; (2) the required rates of agricultural growth are, however, higher than the actual in both East Asia and South Asia; (3) moderate growth and reduction of income inequality will have a substantial poverty reduction impact; and, finally, (4) even modest improvements in institutional quality will reduce poverty substantially through higher incomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]