Chad is among the poorest countries in the world. Around 55 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and … about 36 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty. The opportunity to reduce widespread poverty provided by the … dramatic increase in revenues has been, however, mostly missed to date. Chad's first National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS …

The Government of Moldova's Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (EGPRSP) lays out an ambitious plan … for sustaining growth and poverty reduction and reshaping the government to meet the needs of a market economy. The public …

a view to increasing productivity and reducing poverty in rural areas. Moreover, the PRECASP will finance expenditure …

This Public Expenditure Review (PER) analyzes the Government of Madagascar's efforts to meet the challenge of poverty … Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). Secondly, reviews the resource allocation and current budget management process in … implement the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). This section also deals with overall budget execution in implementing the …

Uganda Virtual Poverty Fund (VPF) to understand how well it served to allocate resources to pro-poor programs and what …

contributions” -- Chapter 2. Tsegaye Mulugeta, “Impacts of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption on Rural Poverty: Evidence from … Rural Farmers: An Analysis based on Survey Data of Ethiopia” -- Chapter 8. Getu Tigre, “Multidimensional Poverty and its … and alleviating poverty in the country. The studies cover transition from rural agriculture to urban industry and the …

The paper examines the questions of which fiscal (public expenditure and taxation) options work in terms of poverty … in combination with relevant policies and institutions has enabled poverty, in some countries and regions, to fall …

zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally …