Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)

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Who Will Pay For The Economic Crises A Controversial Documentary Screening in Twenty Countries For Poverty Week Knows the An

20 October 2008

As the global economic crises deepens, activists worldwide seek to draw attention to the plight of the poor through actions this week to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and to demand that world leaders deliver on their promises to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. A new documentary film, The End of Poverty,’s that examines the increase in global poverty as the byproduct of free market economics, has struck a nerve with (...)

The World Bank suddenly discovers 400 more million poverty-ridden people

12 September 2008

The World Bank recently acknowledged significant mistakes in its figures concerning poverty in the world. Indeed, while “the WB’s estimates of poverty are improved thanks to more reliable data on the cost of living”, the outcome is a head-on questioning of statistics produced by this institution, which has been facing a serious legitimacy crisis for several years: all at once the WB has just found out that 400 million more people live in poverty than earlier thought. In other words more than (...)

G8 debt deal one year on:

6 July 2006

Approaching the G8 which, this year, will take place in Russia, Eurodad released a usefull report on the advancement of the debt deal.

IMF and World Bank ignore NGOs, new study says

9 June 2004

WASHINGTON,May 26, 2004(IPS/GIN) — Attempts by civil society groups to influence policies at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under a controversial consultation programme have been mostly fruitless, a new study says. Those groups might have to demand that their input be taken seriously if they still intend to influence the process, known as the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), adds the report, ’Rethinking Participation’, by ActionAid USA and ActionAid (...)

The myths and dangers of PRSPs

25 September 2003

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), required by the IMF and the World Bank for access to debt relief and concessional assistance, are loaded with a number of myths that should be debunked.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A Poor Package for Poverty Reduction

May 2003

The World Bank and the IMF claim that the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) signal a new approach to tackling the challenges of poverty alleviation and economic development among their low-income clients. In this paper, the authors contend that little has changed in the substance, form and process of World Bank and IMF programmes. clients.

Poverty Reduction? or PRSP?

11 March 2003

PRSPs will create and entrench policy-induced poverty. They will have little to do with poverty reduction in any meaningful sense. But they will certainly strengthen the grip of the Washington Consensus on the policy environments of recipient countries.

PRSP in Pakistan

6 March 2003

The PRSP process does not offer anything other than regurgitation of old policies and practices. Therefore, it is unlikely that the results will be any different from what they always have been.