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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. The Factors behind the Poor Integration of the Water and Sanitation Sector in PRSPs in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 23 September 2003
    Tim Williamson, Tom Slaymaker & Peter Newborne

    The Water and Sanitation Sector (WSS) however has suffered from poor integration into the PRSP and budgetary processes. This report examines why this might be the case, by examining the integration of the WSS in PRSPs in three Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, Uganda, Zambia and Malawi, and comparing this experience to generic experiences in the education and health sectors.

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  2. A Review of the Trade and Poverty Content in PRSPs and Loan-Related Documents

    Publication - Books or book chapters - 31 May 2003
    Adrian Hewitt and Ian Gillson

    Under Structural Adjustment, developing countries had been required to subject their economies to competition from international trade in exchange for loans to their governments. After the Washington Consensus was deemed to have failed, Poverty Reduction Strategies were introduced as a way of managing debt relief, addressing social objectives, and giving countries stronger 'ownership' over their recovery policies. But in what ways, regarding trade, do PRSPs and the succeeding loans improve on the preceding arrangements? This book reviews the trade and poverty content of PRSPs and the policy conditions of the lending arrangements which followed for seventeen countries.  It concludes that whereas loans almost invariably still establish conditions for trade liberalisation, PRSPs, with few exceptions, neglect trade policy (tending to focus on expenditure rather than production and economic growth). There is thus asymmetry between these innovatory poverty-focused policies and IFI loan financing. The report recommends to redress this imbalance by improving the trade content of the poverty analysis in PRSPs, and for donors and lenders to address supply-side policies relating to trade infrastructure.

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  4. Economic and Financial Impacts of Natural Disasters: an Assessment of Their Effects and Options for Mitigation

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 April 2003
    Charlotte Benson and Edward Clay

    As part of its efforts to promote disaster prevention and mitigation as an integral part of development activities, the World Bank's Disaster Management Facility (DMF) has undertaken a study on the economic and financial consequences of natural disasters, with the support of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) provided through its Conflict and Humanitarian Aid Department (CHAD).

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  7. How, When and Why does Poverty get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Five African Countries: Synthesis Paper

    Publication - Discussion papers - 30 April 2002
    ODI Working Papers 168
    Mick Foster, Adrian Fozzard, Felix Naschold and Tim Conway

    This paper synthesises the key findings from case studies in five countries (Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda), each of which examined how public expenditure management has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals.

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  8. How, When and Why does Poverty get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Malawi

    Publication - Discussion papers - 30 April 2002
    ODI Working Papers 166
    Adrian Fozzard and Chauncy Simwaka

    This paper assesses Malawi’s experience in introducing pro-poor public expenditure policies from the 90s to 2001. Performance is assessed in terms of the consistency of fiscal policy and resource allocations with the Government’s poverty reduction goals. The paper focuses on core financial management systems and the relationship between Ministry of Finance and spending agencies.

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