€™s potential in agriculture and natural resources are the main areas of opportunity regarding economic growth and poverty reduction. …This poverty reduction strategy paper on Nicaragua shows that the main obstacles to poverty reduction are related to … weaknesses in the energy matrix, the flaws in the health, education, and potable water systems, and the precarious presence of …

This paper assesses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of Vietnam, known as the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and … Growth Strategy (CPRGS). It is an action program to achieve economic growth and poverty reduction objectives. This paper … reviews the objectives and tasks of socio-economic development and poverty reduction. The government of Vietnam takes poverty …

This paper discusses key findings of the first annual progress report on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP … economic environment, with its repercussions on the national economy. The various external shocks have led to instability in …

poverty has been analyzed. The pillars of the short- and medium-term growth and poverty reduction strategy have been described …. The paper provides a quantitative assessment and costing of Cameroon’s poverty reduction strategy, a consistency check … how the poverty reduction strategy will be monitored and evaluated. …

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses socioeconomic development in the Republic of Tajikistan. Although … poverty reduction in rural areas is proceeding at a faster pace than in urban areas, poverty continues to be a predominantly …

Mauritania’s poverty reduction strategy paper is based on a broadly participatory process and serves as the policy … improve governance and build capacity. In the revision the focus is to strengthen leadership, monitoring, evaluation, and …

This paper reviews the Third Progress Report 2002/03 for Tanzania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The report highlights … challenges, including the monitoring system. There are successes recorded owing to the implementation of the first Poverty …

This paper focuses on Togo’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper adopted by the … improving political and economic governance, the government continued the ongoing process of national reconciliation and … reforms. The government has introduced reforms designed to improve governance in nonperforming state enterprises and in the …

This paper presents an overview of the National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (NPRSP) for Guinea-Bissau. The paper … discusses the phenomenon of poverty, its dimensions, extent, and distribution by category and region. It provides a background … analysis of developments in poverty based on the diagnostic of past economic policies. The paper presents the priority goals in …

This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Burundi. The PRSP comes two and a half years after … presents a medium- and long-term development vision for Burundi and sets out bold poverty reduction objectives, which are …