Making PRSPs work : can rhetoric and reality coincide? / Alan Whaites -- All for naught? : an analysis of Senegal's PRSP process / Wendy Phillips -- Working towards an Ethiopian PRSP / Joe Muwonge, Beyene Geleta and Simon Heliso -- Process before strategy : planning a less than ideal PRSP for...

Preface -- List of acronyms -- Geography and the colonial legacy -- Export led growth and the origins of protectionism -- Import substitution industrialization (ISI) -- Debt crises and the lost decade -- Poverty : origins and persistence -- The political economy of Latin American development --...

Developing countries start the decade facing two major challenges: to continue the social and economic progress of the past 30 years in an international climate that looks less helpful; and to tackle the plight of the 800 million people living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little...