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  Recommendations from a child rights perspective with regard to joint World Bank and IMF 2005 PRS review

  Kindernothilfe, 2005

  This paper identifies a number of gaps in PRSPs relating to child rights, and makes recommendations to integrate a child rights perspective into PRSPs.The paper provides the following critiques of the PRSPs:no current (I-) PRSP attempts to classify child and youth poverty in its poverty analysismost (I-) PRSPs pay little or no attention to youth unemployment, to the labour condition
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  Integrating the environment into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a methodology for evaluating a country’s perception of its performance

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  The PRSP review process is guided by a set of two overarching questions followed by a more detailed list of 15 questions. An evaluation of these questions highlights that environment issues aren’t examined.
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  Structural injustice and the MDGs: a critical analysis of the Zambian experience

  Trocaire, 2005

  This paper critically examines reasons as to why the MDGs are not likely to be met in Zambia by 2015.
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  Progress reviews and performance assessment in poverty-reduction strategies and budget support: a survey of current thinking and practice

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report describes and analyses the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes.
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  The road not taken: international aid's choice of Copenhagen over Beijing

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  This paper explores how the international aid system ‘thinks’ and therefore ‘knows’ and how that thinking shapes policy possibilities and ignores or trivialises potential alternatives.
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  The Washington Consensus is dead!: long live the meta-narrative!

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report critically examines the current discourse on international development policy.
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  Pushing the boundaries: health and the next round of PRSPs

  Working Group on Health and Development Issues, 2004

  This WEMOS report attempts to assess whether health has benefited from the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process launched in 1999 by the international community.
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  The World Bank’s poverty reduction strategy paper approach: good marketing or good policy?

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2003

  This study reviews the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's Poverty Reducation Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach to poverty reduction.
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  Impact of public policies on poverty, income distribution and growth

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2004

  Paramount to the recent UN Millennium Development Goals initiative is the issue of whether public policies are at all efficient in alleviating poverty.
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  Challenging women's poverty: perspectives on gender and poverty reduction strategies from Nicaragua and Honduras

  Progressio, 2003

  This paper explores the role of gender in World Bank and IMF-implemented poverty reduction strategy papers. The authors conclude that if PRSPs are to succeed, strategies to reduce poverty must consider the basis of gender inequalities in wealth.

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