This background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2007-08 addresses three key questions: 1) Where there is sustained economic growth, how can governments ensure that markets operate in ways that include the chronically poor on beneficial terms? 2) Where there is low or no growth, how can the...

Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Background -- SGPRS - Progress and Challenges -- The NDP - A Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Chapter 1: Citizen Participation -- 1.1 The Will of the Country -- 1.2 The Participatory Process in the NDP...

The draft 2004 budget passed by the assembly is consistent with the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). Achieving the programmed strengthening of the tax effort remains a challenge. On the expenditure side, the aim is to improve the anti-poverty and pro-growth orientation of public...