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  PRSP annual progress reports and joint staff assessments: a review of progress

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper reflects on the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) four years after its inception. Forty one countries are implementing full PRSPs, and eleven more are using an interim PRS.
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  Understanding urban poverty: what the poverty reduction strategy papers tell us

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper reviews 23 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), examining how they define and measure urban poverty.
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  Poor relations?: PRSPs and the response to HIV/AIDS and children

  Tearfund, 2004

  This Tearfund paper examines the use of the Poverty Reduction Strategy process (PRSP) in response to HIV/AIDS. It summarises the relationships between poverty and HIV/AIDS, highlights some of the key features of the PRSPs, and analyses the vision and reality of PRSPs in responding to HIV/AIDS. It then considers the future of PRSPs in increasing responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Sustainable development in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: the role of social capital, participation, and science and technology

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2004

  This paper explores efforts towards sustainable development in Ijebu-Ode, a small city of 200,000 inhabitants in south-west Nigeria. This city chose to participate in a consultative project to reduce poverty through a set of local and sustainable livelihood activities.
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  Education and PRSPs: a review of experiences

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004

  The study presents and discusses the changes brought about by the PRSP approach with regard to human development and education and training.
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  Donors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.
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  Partnerships in development: progress in the fight against poverty

  World Bank, 2004

  Over the past 10 years, the World Bank has published eight Poverty Progress Reports. This latest report focuses on cooperative efforts between the World Bank and other development and financial organizations to help countries see poverty as a multidimensional problem, and to adopt multifaceted strategies for reducing it.
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  Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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  The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: an independent evaluation of the World Bank’s support through 2003

  World Bank, 2004

  The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative aims to make World Bank aid more effective in reducing poverty.
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  Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  This report proposes that despite economic growth in the Asia and Pacific region in 2003, driven largely by intraregional trade and domestic demand, there remain many obstacles to poverty reduction in the area. The authors examine various countries' poverty reduction strategies within the Asia and Pacific region, in light of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

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