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  Proving the impact

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  This paper is based on a review of the World Bank's Draft User guide to poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA). The author supports certain aspects of the approach, and raises issues with others such as participation, roles, transparency, agenda setting and poverty analysis among others.
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  Pro-poor macroeconomic policies require poverty and social impact analysis

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper shows that in the PRGF (Poverty Reduction Growth Facility) the IMF continues to use the same rigid economic model and fails to recognise that different macroeconomic policy options exist. It then provides examples of the considerable work also going on outside the IMF on developing techniques for PSIA of macroeconomic frameworks, which the fund has failed to take an active role in.
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  Is PRGF maximising finance for poverty reduction?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper presents an analysis of the direct and indirect impacts of PRGF programmes on the mobilisation of finance needed to progress towards the MDGs. The analysis reveals that although some changes have indeed taken place since the PRGF facility was first launched, they are still too limited in scope and in depth.
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  Feedback on the user’s guide to poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA)

  World Learning, 2003

  This paper argues that the Bank should use the PSIA process to improve the nature of its engagement with southern governments and involve those not usually engaged in macro-policy processes.
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  Where is the impact?

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper is a joint briefing by a consortium of NGOs (CAFOD, Oxfam International, World Vision, Christian Aid, Bretton Woods Project, EURODAD, Save the Children, WaterAid) in response to the World Bank's Draft user's guide to poverty and social impact analysis.
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  Experience of PRSs in Asia

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This briefing note summarises some of the key issues underlying the Poverty Reduction Strategy process within some countries in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam).
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  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA): common themes and issues arising from five pilot studies

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2002

  This paper outlines some common themes and issues arising from the conduct of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of macroeconomic and structural policy reforms. It draws on the experience and interim findings of five PSIA pilot studies carried out in 2002.
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  PRS Monitoring in Africa

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This note covers Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and poverty monitoring systems in eight African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia). It sheds light on monitoring systems for PRSPs in Africa, stating that there is still a lot of scope for civil society involvement.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: a new convergence

  World Bank, 2003

  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers represent both a primary policy device of international development institutions, and an instance of a wider international convergence of public policy around global integration and social inclusion.
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  Poverty, Knowledge and Policy Processes: A Case Study of Ugandan National Poverty Reduction Policy

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This report concerns the poverty reduction policy process in Kampala, Uganda. It describes and analyses the actors involved in policy processes at national level, the kinds of knowledge on which the processes draw, and the spaces, formal and informal, in which policy actors engage with each other.

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