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  Decentralisation and poverty in developing countries: exploring the impact

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper finds that the link between decentralisation and poverty reduction cannot be clearly established. It argues that in some of the poorest countries characterised by weak institutions and political conflicts, decentralisation could actually make matters worse.
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  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: blind to the rights of the (working) child?

  Kindernothilfe, 2004

  In 2005 the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will undertake a comprehensive review of PRSP processes.
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  Poverty reduction strategy processes in Malawi and Zambia

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This report discusses the participatory aspects of the protracted policy-making process that led to the formulation of Malawi’s and Zambia’s respective Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). It argues that participation was considerable in both countries, especially by civil society organisations.
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  The PRSP approach: a basic guide for CARE International

  Care International - rights based approach resource centre, 2004

  This paper argues that the PRSP approach is only just beginning to have an impact through enhancing country ownership of nationally formulated poverty reduction processes.
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  Civil society perception of PRSPs in Burkina Faso (French Document)

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This paper analyses aspects of the national experience in the poverty reduction strategy process in Burkina Faso.
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  Gender mainstreaming in macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction strategy in Kenya

  African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2004

  This paper addresses the gender element within Kenya's current PRSP document. The authors argue that there is no detailed cognisance of the gendered dimensions of the proposed policies, or anticipation of gender implications of the outcomes in reference to the different poverty dimensions.
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  Learning the lessons on PSIA: a synthesis of experience from the DFID Pilot Studies

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) aims to improve policy formation in low-income countries and is hailed as a key element both of national PRS processes, and in the design of IMF and World Bank lending programmes. PSIA is an approach for assessing the effects of policy change on the well being of different groups in society.
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  Review of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003

  This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
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  Politics and the PRSP approach: Georgia case study

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper states that the PRSP approach has not been a particularly effective tool in addressing Georgia's problems of governance and poverty. It argues that donors and government must both commit to implementing the country's Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Programme (EDPRP) and using it as a framework for their activities.
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  Politics and the PRSP approach: Bolivia case study

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This case study of Bolivia addresses the political development implications of both the first National Dialogue and PRSP process in 2000, and the current process in 2003–04. The authors sets out the challenges of political development in the country, referring to historical legacies, medium-term trends and relevant policy-reform agenda from the last decade.

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