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This paper presents the status report on Bangladesh’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Having prepared the Interim-PRSP (I-PRSP) in March 2003, the government of Bangladesh has set itself to a well-rounded process of preparing the full-blown PRSP by December 2004. That would...
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service , and local government. Distinct effort has been made to improve delivery of social services such as education, health …
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. Djibouti suffers from a gross lack of reliable health statistics. Available information gives only a fragmented picture of the … reality, but globally, it reveals a difficult health situation. The promotion of a coherent and integrated employment policy …
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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Nicaragua reports that the most pressing demand for the majority of Nicaraguans is employment generation and economic growth. The National Development Plan (NDP) gives priority to actions that improve the investment climate and promote productive...
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This paper examines the progress report on Azerbaijan Republic’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. The share of the production and non-oil sector in GDP has increased. The shares of industry, construction, wholesale, and retail and service sectors increased, while the shares of...
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sectors, improving performance indicators for health and education, and implementing reforms that will have a greater impact …
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Enhancing the efficiency of education and health spending is a key policy challenge in G7 countries. The paper assesses … and doctors' consultations coincide with higher efficiency in the health sector. Greater autonomy for schools seems to …
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incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in … paper finds, among other things, that overall education and health spending are poorly targeted; benefits from primary … education and primary health care go disproportionately to the middle class, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, HIPCs and …
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The study examines the effect of health care reform in Bulgaria in 1999 on the equity of health care financing. It … explores the distribution of different types of health care financing by income. Furthermore, it separates the financial and … distinguishing between financially based and "exclusion based" reasons for having progressive/regressive health care financing …
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This report highlights progress made in implementing the Honduran Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) from the time of its approval by the Government of Honduras in August 2001 to the present. The report monitors the economic and social programs that were defined in the original document and which...
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