Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action: Perspectives and Lessons from GhanaJoe Amoako-Tuffour, Bartholomew K. Armah Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone, the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development literature. |
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The NorthSouth Divide and the Disappearing | 49 |
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Accra achieve activities Africa agricultural allocations areas assess capacity cedis child poverty consultation coordination countries decentralization deprivation Development Planning dimensions direct budget support disbursement District Assemblies district level donors economic ensure environment environmental expenditure Finance fiscal formal sector framework funds gender Ghana Living Standards Ghana Poverty Reduction Ghana Statistical Service goals Government of Ghana GPRS Greater Accra Region groups growth HIPC Households headed impact implementation improve income increase indicators institutions issues labour line ministries Living Standards Survey macroeconomic MDAs measures ment MoFEP monitoring and evaluation MTEF National Development Planning NDPC nomic outputs overall participation percent poor population poverty line Poverty Reduction Strategy priorities production programs projects PRSP PRSS public sector reform regions role rural social spatial inequality Structural Adjustment sustainable Table targets tion University of Ghana Upper West regions urban informal sector World Bank