Ghana: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

May 19, 2003

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Ghana: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This paper presents the Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Progress Report for Ghana. IMF staff believes that the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy overall provides a sound framework for implementing the government’s antipoverty agenda The strategy builds on creating favorable conditions for private-sector-led growth, improving the delivery of basic social services, and raising the efficiency of the public sector. To this end, the government intends to maintain a stable macroeconomic environment with moderate inflation, improve infrastructure and market access, and increase the availability and quality of basic health and education services.

Subject: Economic sectors, Education, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Public sector

Keywords: CR, Government, GPRS approach, GPRS implementation, GPRS objective, GPRS proceeds, GPRS recommendation, GPRS., ISCR, Natural resource, Policy, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Poverty-growth elasticity, Public sector, West Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

13
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/132
Stock No:

1GHAEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451814828
ISSN:

1934-7685

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