The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) initiative in … 1999 to improve the planning, implementation, and monitoring of public actions geared toward reducing poverty. The PRS … paper and poverty reduction and growth facility (PRGF) were intended to transform the way the Bank and the fund operated in …

Tanzania's actual growth and poverty reduction performance against its large natural potential and against countries at a … institutional imperatives for exploiting the country's vast potential for sustained growth and reduction of poverty in the long and …

full energies to bringing an effective end to extreme poverty by 2030. This means reducing to no more than 3 percent the …. This short note begins by looking at progress to date in reducing global poverty and discusses some of the challenges of … reaching the interim target of reducing global poverty to 9 percent by 2020, which was set by the WBG President at the 2013 …