may contribute to rising poverty during periods of high inflation …

Implementation of Chad’s first National Poverty Reduction Strategy was undermined by persistent internal conflict, weak … from past patterns and demonstrate commitment to poverty reduction and good governance …

Following the adoption by the international community of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach, which … poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of different policy reforms being considered by the low income countries. This paper … suggested framework could be utilized to investigate the poverty/income distributional implications of introducing a value …

This paper explores the relationship between external debt and poverty. A number of observers have argued that high … external indebtedness is a major cause of poverty. Using the first-differenced general method of moments (GMM) estimator, the … paper models the impact of external debt on poverty, measured by life expectancy, infant mortality, and gross primary …

This paper provides an assessment of the poverty and social impact of replacing Ethiopia''s sales tax with a value … funds for poverty-reducing spending, including primary education. At the same time, there is significant scope for making …

Following an evaluation of the first Poverty Reduction Strategy Framework (PRSF) of Mali, the government adopted the … Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Framework (GPRSF) document, which aims at reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs. The … recommendations. It is recommended to ensure monitoring-evaluation of poverty reduction activities through the GPRSF action plan …

The Cameroonian authorities found irregularities while implementing the first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP …

This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes … greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and the higher the mean income, the higher the … downturn; and (iii) higher growth does not bring diminishing returns to poverty reduction. Moreover, we show that very high …