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Current macroeconomic frameworks, challenges and alternatives for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007This paper discusses policies that have inhibited the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regions.DocumentThe decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?
Oxford Policy Management, 2007Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.DocumentThe macro content of PRSPs: assessing the need for a more flexible macroeconomic policy framework
Development Policy Review, 2006This article analyses the content of 15 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers from a growth and poverty reduction perspective. It argues that, contrary to new trends in developed and middle-income countries, their policy frameworks lack the necessary flexibility to deal with external shocks and address macroeconomic volatility appropriately.DocumentPolitics and poverty reduction strategies: lessons from Latin American HIPCs
Overseas Development Institute, 2006This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutions. The authors draw upon evidence from documents and interviews on how this situation has arisen and how it might be confronted.DocumentGuyana: experience of economic reform under World Bank and IMF direction
Halifax Initiative, 2005This paper reviews Guyana's experience with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in drafting and implementing Guyana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, and with reforms in three major areas of the economy in which the World Bank and IMF have been substantially involved: sugar production, bauxite mining and water services.The review reveals that the relationship between the World BankDocumentDriving under the influence: Senegal’s PRSP process
Halifax Initiative, 2005At the start of the new millennium, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were introduced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as as a condition for debt relief for the poorest countries. The process was supposed to be participative, responding to nationally identified priorities for poverty reduction.DocumentWho’s richer, who’s poorer?: a journalist’s guide to the politics of poverty reduction strategies
Panos Institute, London, 2005This paper provides information for media personnel on the basic issues surrounding Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).DocumentRecommendations from a child rights perspective with regard to joint World Bank and IMF 2005 PRS review
Kindernothilfe, 2005This 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 conditionDocumentProgress reviews and performance assessment in poverty-reduction strategies and budget support: a survey of current thinking and practice
Overseas Development Institute, 2005This report describes and analyses the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes.DocumentThe Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: an independent evaluation of the World Bank’s support through 2003
World Bank, 2004The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative aims to make World Bank aid more effective in reducing poverty.Pages