This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—National Strategy for Development and Integration (PRSP⠅

support sustainable growth. Since export diversification takes a long time, it has to start now. We argue that the failure to …

Growth Facility (PRGF) for Tanzania. Economic growth, inflation, and the external position have evolved in a manner …

poverty in Chad, reviewed the results of the first NPRS and progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), defined … the strategic pillars of the second strategy, examined two key scenarios for poverty reduction and growth, and described … achieving the MDGs in Chad, and therefore the preferred framework for socioeconomic development. …

Benin has been implementing a national poverty reduction strategy for sustainable human development. The government of … Benin judiciously stressed the development of the social sector and improved governance to develop human resources and … enhance the effectiveness of its actions so as to lay the foundations for sustainable human development. The sectoral …

significant tightening. Raising economic growth and reducing poverty necessitate the acceleration of the structural reform agenda …

Development Index. The country has one of the lowest tax revenue-to-GDP ratios in the world (10.1 percent in 2005). To address … these challenges, the authorities are requesting a new three-year arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth … Facility (PRGF) to support their economic program for 2006–08. Broad money growth declined sharply in 2005, but credit to the …