We recommend the following articles and sites. We have found them very informative.

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series: Poverty and Health.
By OECD, World Health Organisation

Using Market Mechanisms to Expand Access to Basic Services in Asia Pacific: Public Private Partnerships for Poverty Reduction.
Draft Report
By Adrian Panggabean.

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.