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This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—National Strategy for Development and Integration (PRSP⠅
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Sound macroeconomic policies, good governance, and high levels of investment, supported by diamond and other mineral production, have moved Botswana into the ranks of middle-income countries. Maintaining fiscal surpluses over the medium term is essential to accumulate savings for the period when...
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Growth Facility (PRGF) for Tanzania. Economic growth, inflation, and the external position have evolved in a manner …
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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. …
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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 …
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India’s financial system compares favorably internationally, but rising credit risk and liquidity pressures are putting it under strain. The staff report for India’s 2008 Article IV Consultation discusses economic developments and policies. The authorities have already taken...
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significant tightening. Raising economic growth and reducing poverty necessitate the acceleration of the structural reform agenda …
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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 …
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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s 2005 Article IV Consultation reports that domestic credit growth has …
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This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Ghana’s growth has remained strong, fuelled by both the private and … public sectors. The Ghanaian economy maintained strong growth of about 6½ percent in 2007 and the first months of 2008. The …
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