PRSP processes in eight African countries: Initial impacts and potential for institutionalization

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An almost accidental by-product of the enhanced HIPC initiative, the process of producing poverty reduction strategy papers represents at least potentially a non-trivial change in the way international finance interacts with poverty reduction efforts at the national level. This paper reports the preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA) that considers early experiences with PRSPs in eight African countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania. The paper argues that politics matters; that PRSPs have helped bring poverty into the policy mainstream; that PRSPs depend on but also contribute something to wider structural reforms; and that the consultative processes around PRSPs could produce second-round effects of a beneficial kind. – poverty ; policy process ; political systems ; participation

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• ISBN: 9291900656
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2001/121

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; Foreign Aid ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Subject: Armutspolitik ; Afrika ; Benin ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Malawi ; Mali ; Mosambik ; Ruanda ; Tansania

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Booth, David
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2001

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52944