Ghana: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report

IMF Staff Country Reports, July 16, 2004

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The Joint Staff Assessment (JSA) evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of poverty reduction objectives and strategies contained in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report (APR) on Ghana.
The 2003 Annual Progress Report (APR) provides a review of recent developments and outcomes under the first year of implementation of the authorities’ poverty reduction strategy.
Structural reform in certain sectors, such as power and education, contributes toward the achievement of the goal of eliminating gender disparity in access to primary education.
Publication date: July 16, 2004.

Evaluation focus:
- Strengths and weaknesses of poverty reduction objectives and strategies.
- Review of developments and outcomes during the first year of implementation (2003 APR).
Sectoral reforms:
- Structural reform in power.
- Structural reform in education.
- These reforms are noted as contributing to the goal of eliminating gender disparity in access to primary education.
The JSA situates the APR within broader subject areas including: Education, Health, Oil prices, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Prices, Public financial management (PFM).

Subjects: Education, Health, Oil prices, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Prices, Public financial management (PFM).
Keywords: anti-poverty objective, authority, CR, district authority, Ghana's Poverty Reduction Strategy, Global, government attention, government initiative, government policy, GPRS process, interest burden, ISCR, Oil prices, Poverty reduction strategy.

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