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The paper presents key findings of the Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Sri Lanka. Despite the country’s substantial achievements in human development and the economy’s external openness, several factors have impeded Sri Lanka’s...
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This paper presents the status report on preparatory activities for the full Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Sierra Leone. The governance and institutional arrangements proposed in the interim PRSP (I-PRSP) for the preparation of the full PRSP have all been set up and are currently...
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This report assesses the Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Program (SDPRP), which is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Ethiopia. It reviews the fundamental development objectives of the SDPRP to build a free-market economic...
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operations, revenue and grants, expenditure, budget financing, gross domestic debt, and equity investment in Solomon Islands. It …, medium- and long-term external government debt-service payments, external debt indicators, and exchange rate indicators of …
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This Selected Issues paper highlights the Philippine growth performance led by the services sector. Average GDP growth is higher in the post-Asian crisis period in the Philippines, while the majority of the Philippines’s regional peers have experienced substantially lower growth in the...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes household savings ratio in Spain. The household savings ratio has fallen to its …. Household savings fell across all households, but the declines were likely more material among lower income and highly indebted … groups. Declining household income and savings slowed deleveraging and put household balance sheets under pressure. Looking …
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note discusses Afghanistan’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper's annual progress report. Afghanistan has experienced a number of extraordinary challenges that delayed its implementation. The security situation deteriorated markedly and has been dominated by the...
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for The Gambia. The Gambian authorities have prepared their second PRSP covering the years 2007 to 2011. The PRSP supports greater decentralization and expansion of social development funds to better target...
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This paper presents the Joint Staff Assessment of the State Program on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development 2003–2005 (SPPRED)—the first full Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) of Azerbaijan. The SPPRED represents a joint effort between the government and civil society...
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This paper examines the Joint Staff Assessment of Rwanda’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) progress report. The authorities have showed continued commitment to privatization of public enterprises. Financial management reform is on track, as are established targets in the social...
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