Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Update

September 14, 2005

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Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Update, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This paper presents an update to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. It discusses that a tendency toward continual growth of the unemployment levels was verified in the urban region between 2000 and 2003 while during the same period, a tendency of continual decrease in the rural zone was detected, with a few variations. The variation rate of unemployment in the urban zone during the period between 2000 and 2003 was 48 percent while the variation rate of unemployment in the rural region was 16.5 percent.

Subject: Education, Health, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Poverty, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy, Taxes

Keywords: CR, Gas and mining taxes, Global, Government program, Governments of Sao Tome and Principe, ISCR, Oil, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy, Private sector, Regulation authority, Revenue, São Toméan government, State, State General budget approval, State treasury, State's functioning

Publication Details

Pages:

74
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/334
Stock No:

1STPEA2005003
ISBN:

9781451835076
ISSN:

1934-7685

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