Is the PRGF living up to expectations?
Subtitle: an assessment of program design
By: Sanjeev Gupta...[et. al.].
Contributors: Gupta, Sanjeev.; International Monetary Fund.
Series: Occasional paper ;; 216; Occasional paper (International Monetary Fund) ;; no. 216.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Poverty -- Developing countries; Economic assistance, Domestic -- Developing countries; Economic development; Economic assistance -- Developing countries
Other titles: Is the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility living up to expectations?
Notes: "This paper synthesizes two papers prepared by IMF staff - "Review of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility : issues and options" (February 14, 2002) and "Review of the Key Features of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility : staff analysis (March 15, 2002)..." -- vii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the key features of the PRGF; title: Overview of the study sample and methodology; title: Key features 1 and 2: broad ownership and participation and embedding the PRGF in the overall strategy for growth and poverty reduction; title: Key feature 3: budgets that are more pro-poor and pro-growth; title: Key feature 4: ensuring appropriate flexibility in fiscal targets; title: Key feature 5: more selective structural conditionality; title: Key feature 6: measures to improve public resource management and accountability; title: Key feature 7: social impact analysis of major macroeconomic adjustments and structural reforms; title: The potential role of capacity building in strengthening program design; title: Conclusion.