This paper focuses on the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction for Bangladesh. The paper discusses that …. Moreover, there are critical follow-up issues, which will determine the success of the poverty reduction strategy. …

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 …

The health of the population in Guinea is also one of the determinants of poverty, owing to its impact on the ability … administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households, consultation rates among households in the first and second …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

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 …

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 …

In October 2006, the Chadian government prepared a second National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS2). NPRS2 analyzed … 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 …