In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews … some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for … reducing poverty, taking into account the functional differences and overlap between the rural poor. Several policy options are …

This paper focuses on Togo’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper adopted by the …

This paper presents an overview of the National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (NPRSP) for Guinea-Bissau. The paper … discusses the phenomenon of poverty, its dimensions, extent, and distribution by category and region. It provides a background … analysis of developments in poverty based on the diagnostic of past economic policies. The paper presents the priority goals in …

This paper focuses on Senegal’s second poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP–II). It summarizes the results of the … document for growth and poverty reduction that draws legitimacy from an underlying participatory process, it sets poverty …

international port of Djibouti and from the country’s strategic position. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses that the …

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and …

effective implementation of the poverty reduction and growth strategy has been made in Cape Verde. …

This annual progress report reviews Burkina Faso’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). The regional … in 2004, to reduce the incidence of poverty to less than 35 percent by 2015, and to increase life expectancy to at least …

This report reviews the Priority Action Program (PAP) for Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) implementation in … Burkina Faso. The PAP makes the PRSP operational and increases the visibility of public policies in the area of poverty … the overall poverty rate to 43.3 percent, with rural and urban poverty rates amounting to 48.1 percent and 16.6 percent …