“A national poverty reduction strategy must deal with the elimination of causes, and not only the consequences of poverty; the strategy must be defined as an integral part of the social development strategy, which has a long-term goal of building a successful, but also just society, in which solidarity and equality will dominate… The PRS is not the Government's project, but an integral strategy of all parts of society—ministries, private businesses, NGOs, international development partners.”

Zoran Đinđić,
former Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia,
at the Conference «Poverty profile in Serbia», Beograd,
December 18, 2002