effects, increase living standard, and reduce poverty in the country. Implementation of the reforms anticipated by the Program …

This volume discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS I) and the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II …) that addressed the critical poverty issues in Ghana. GPRS I is a comprehensive policy document prepared as a precondition …

The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound … macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities … capacity at the beginning, made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy. …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue … costeffective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

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 …