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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, PRSP, PRSP critique

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  Indigenous peoples, poverty reduction and conflict in Nepal

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This case study argues that despite the good intentions and increasing realisation of the importance of social inclusion for poverty alleviation and lasting peace, reflected in the PRSP, insufficient attention has been given to indigenous peoples’ issues in Nepal.Problems of the PRSP as identified by the paper include:the indigenous peoples issue has not been recognised as a crosscuttin
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  Evaluation of the 2002-2004 poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP)

  Civil Society for Poverty Reduction, Zambia, 2005

  Zambia's PRSP was introduced in 2002, based upon a three year time-frame. At the end of this period, civil society conducted independent rapid poverty monitoring and expenditure tracking exercises to establish whether the programme outcomes and impacts were consistent with PRSP aims and objectives.
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  Mainstreaming children into national poverty strategies: a child-focused analysis of the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programe (2002-05)

  Young Lives, 2005

  This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated into Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), known as the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDRDP), and to develop policy recommendations for the second PRSP based on a comparative content analysis with other countries’ PRSPs.The paper identifies key components of a child-centre
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  Missing links in the politics of development: learning from the PRSP experiment

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are five years old. It is six years since the Enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC2) placed on the international agenda a new type of donor conditionality, requiring governments to prepare, and hold public consultations about, comprehensive three-year plans for improving their performance in reducing poverty.
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  Guyana: experience of economic reform under World Bank and IMF direction

  Halifax Initiative, 2005

  This paper reviews Guyana's experience with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in drafting and implementing Guyana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, and with reforms in three major areas of the economy in which the World Bank and IMF have been substantially involved: sugar production, bauxite mining and water services.The review reveals that the relationship between the World Bank
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  Driving under the influence: Senegal’s PRSP process

  Halifax Initiative, 2005

  At the start of the new millennium, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were introduced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as as a condition for debt relief for the poorest countries. The process was supposed to be participative, responding to nationally identified priorities for poverty reduction.
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  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: children first!: a case study on PRSP processes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia

  Kindernothilfe, 2005

  This study aims to contribute to an assessment of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia from a child rights perspective. It links up with a previous study, titled "Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: blind to the rights of the (working) child?", which showed that the majority of the PRSPs did not deal with child labour.
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  The MDGs and pro-poor policies: can external partners make a difference?

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Can all MDG indicators be taken at face value? Are we on track to meeting the MDGs by 2015? Does equity matter for the MDGs? What are pro-poor policies? Is narrow targeting always good for the MDGs? Are policies becoming more pro-poor and MDG-friendly?
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  Who’s richer, who’s poorer?: a journalist’s guide to the politics of poverty reduction strategies

  Panos Institute, London, 2005

  This paper provides information for media personnel on the basic issues surrounding Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).
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  Poverty reduction: are the strategies working?

  World Vision, 2005

  2005 has seen a new wave of development assistance initiatives in preparation for the UN Millennium Review, which put accountability at the centre of the development agenda.

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