PRSP critique
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- Are alternatives to neo-liberalism needed to meet the MDGs in southern Africa?
- J. Chipika / Southern African Regional Poverty Network , 2007
- This paper discusses policies that have inhibited the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regions. Specifically, the paper argu...
- More public spending on agriculture could help combat poverty
- S. Akroyd;L. Smith / Oxford Policy Management , 2007
- Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultura...
- How participatory have the PRSPs been?
- E. Braathen / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2006
- Has the PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Process) paved the way for a new and more democratic participatory way of governance and policy-making, or was it just an ad hoc gimmick promoted by the donor ...
- How Friedman and Sachs got it wrong
- R. Broad; J. Cavanagh / New Rules for Global Finance, 2006
- The popular backlash to the Washington Consensus (an agenda of enforced open market policies) has been witnessed in protest marches and anti-globalisation campaigns for quite some time. This revolutio...
- Are PRSPS flexible enough to cope with external shocks?
- R. Gottschalk / Development Policy Review, 2006
- This article analyses the content of 15 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers from a growth and poverty reduction perspective. It argues that, contrary to new trends in developed and middle-income countri...
- Civil Society involvement in PRSP monitoring in Nicaragua
- T. Braunschweig; B. Stöckli / Alliance Sud, Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations, 2006
- Based on perception of civil society representatives in Nicaragua, this study assesses constraints and potentials of civil society involvement in poverty reduction strategy (PRS) monitoring processes ...
- An evaluation of the poverty reduction strategy approach
- M. Allen; D.M. Leipziger / International Monetary Fund , 2005
- The PRS (poverty reduction strategy) approach has become widespread over the last five years. This paper presents a review of the PRS approach in the form of an extensive discussion of implementation ...
- The participation of indigenous peoples in the PRSP process in Cameroon
- B. Tchoumba / International Labour Organization , 2005
- The Cameroonian poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP), approved in 2003, is presented as a document developed in a participatory manner. However, beyond official discourse on participation and consu...
- Politicising the PRS approach in Latin America
- D. Booth; A. Grigsby; C. Toranzo / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully wi...
- The nature and extent of indigenous participation in the PRSP process
- M. Tomei / International Labour Organization , 2005
- Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other soc...
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