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Burkina Faso; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for coordination of all interventions and of public aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244817
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Cameroon; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The growth rate of agriculture in Cameroon was estimated at 3.3 percent in 2006, compared with 2.7 percent in 2005. This is owing to increased activity in the food agriculture sector (4.3 percent) and in forestry and logging (4.0 percent). Livestock farming and fisheries, on the one hand, grew...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245018
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Benin; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—2005 Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) was developed based on a long participatory process based on an institutional mechanism involving all socioeconomic development actors in the country. The annual review of the PRSP seeks to assess the results achieved in the implementation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245136
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Human Capital Convergence; International Evidence
Sab, Randa; Smith, Stephen C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
In the growth literature, evidence on income convergence is mixed. In the development literature, health and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248134
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Mortality and Lifetime Income; Evidence From U.S. Social Security Records
Greenlees, John S.; Duggan, James E.; Gillingham, Robert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas … between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large micro data base of current and former retired participants in … death between low and high lifetime income are on the order of two to three years. Income-related mortality differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264236
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Republic of Tajikistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Second Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
drastically. Income poverty remains high. People’s access to energy, water, communications, education, and health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824948
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Czech Republic; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal reform of the Czech Republic, its key reform measures, and structural implications. The study also focuses on key challenges and demographic pressures facing the Czech economy, and describes the analytical framework of Global Fiscal Model (GFM) with technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242637
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Republic of Uzbekistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The Welfare Improvement Strategy (WIS) of Uzbekistan has the objective of improving living standards of its people with the help of strong economic policies for all priority areas of development. The report reviews economic and social policies and assesses the living standards of its people. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243090
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Philippines; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper highlights the Philippine growth performance led by the services sector. Average GDP growth is higher in the post-Asian crisis period in the Philippines, while the majority of the Philippines’s regional peers have experienced substantially lower growth in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243155
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Guinea; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The health of the population in Guinea is also one of the determinants of poverty, owing to its impact on the ability of the population to work with vigor. There are large disparities depending on the urban/rural residence and administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243553