Benin: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
IMF Staff Country Reports, April 29, 2003
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- Published: April 29, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803426.002
Summary
- This paper presents the Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Benin.
- The IMF staff has determined that Benin’s PRSP contains a credible poverty reduction strategy.
- The main strengths of the PRSP are the comprehensiveness of the strategic framework and an effort to make explicit the linkages between policy actions and result indicators.
- The PRSP suffers from important shortcomings that the authorities will need to address during the first year of strategy implementation, so as to sharpen the poverty focus and make the strategy fully operational.
Main strengths
- Comprehensiveness of the strategic framework.
- Explicit effort to link policy actions and result indicators.
Shortcomings and implementation priorities
- Important shortcomings that must be addressed during the first year of strategy implementation.
- Need to sharpen the poverty focus.
- Need to make the strategy fully operational.
Thematic focus areas
- Education
- Expenditure
- Poverty
- Poverty reduction
- Poverty reduction strategy
Keywords and process elements referenced
- CR, government, growth, I-PRSP, ISCR, poverty diagnosis, poverty profile, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRSP baseline scenario, PRSP consultation, PRSP process, West Africa
Source: Benin: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (April 29, 2003).
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- Benin: Joint Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - ISCR/03/111