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  IFAD desk review of the PRSP Process in Eastern and Southern Africa

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  This desk analysis is based on an analysis of the PRSP process in 10 countries (Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia).
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  Civil society participation in Rwanda’s poverty reduction strategy

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper argues that the participation conditionality linked to the PRSP is too ambitious to be workable and too vague to be monitored. Typically, the Bretton Woods institutions have been lenient in the verifying of this conditionality, as a result of which governments can get away with a semblance of civil society consultation.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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  Getting serious about meeting the Millennium development goals

  World Bank, 2003

  This report reviews the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) principles in 48 low-income countries.
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  Malawi: Joint staff assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper progress report

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper is based on the first annual review of Malawi's poverty reduction strategy (MPRS). It concludes that the implementation of the MPRSP has been unsatisfactory as actual funds allocated for pro poor activities have been substantially lower than envisaged in the strategy paper.
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  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: progress in implementation 2003

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This latest in the annual series of progress reports on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papgers (PRSPs) highlights tensions that have emerged in the PRSP process, including:concerns about the breadth of the government’s commitment beyond the team responsible for preparation, reinforcing the need for greater cohesion between PRSPs and other planning documentscountries continue to find it a c
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  The impact of increases in public expenditure on poverty in Rwanda

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This study of Rwanda's PSIA addresses a poverty and social impact analysis of macroeconomic projections exploring the impact of expenditure programmes subsequent public spending asset out in the countrys' PRSP. The evidence for the key macroeconomic relationships is gained partly from econometric analysis of Rwandan data.
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  National poverty reduction strategies (PRSPs) in conflict-affected countries in Africa

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This briefing note, published by the PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, describes a study of progress with, and prospects for, the implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in countries affected by conflict. It focuses on Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Nigeria, and Sudan.
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  Costing Poverty Reduction Strategies: early experience

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2002

  This paper gives an analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy approach through assessing fiscal implications of reaching medium and long-term poverty reduction targets.
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  Are the MDGs feasible?

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2002

  This paper argues that if MDGs appear feasible at the global level, it does not necessarily imply that they will be feasible in all nations or at all locations. Averages are commonly used at each level to measure MDG progress, which can be quite misleading.

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