Poverty Measurement and Choice of Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Importance of Poverty Measurement in Determining the Right Strategy

Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement

Poverty Reduction Strategy of Pakistan

The biggest development challenge facing Pakistan is how to meet the millennium development goal of bringing down the incidence of poverty from the current level of 33 percent to 18 percent by 2015. It may be recalled that by reaching this goal, we would have only regained the level we had attained in 1988-89. This experience shows that it is quite easy to relapse into higher incidence of pover...

The Politics of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

This paper offers a critique on the politics of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and their framework, processes, and content. The paper challenges the fundamental assumptions of the poverty reduction approach and the underlying politics of the international financial institutions with a view to seek the answer to question as to why the development programmes initiated under the auspices of...

The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (IPRSP)

The Guyana Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

A. Organizational and Institutional Framework.................... 13 1. The Donor Coordination Unit .......................................... 13 2. PRS Steering Committee .............................................. 14 3. Poverty Reduction Strategy Secretariat (PRSS) and Participation Action Plan (PAP) ........................................................ 14 4. The Resource Teams ...........