Ghana: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

May 19, 2003

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International Monetary Fund. "Ghana: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper", IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 132 (2003), accessed May 14, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814828.002

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Summary

This paper presents the Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Progress Report for Ghana. IMF staff believes that the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy overall provides a sound framework for implementing the government’s antipoverty agenda The strategy builds on creating favorable conditions for private-sector-led growth, improving the delivery of basic social services, and raising the efficiency of the public sector. To this end, the government intends to maintain a stable macroeconomic environment with moderate inflation, improve infrastructure and market access, and increase the availability and quality of basic health and education services.

Subject: Economic sectors, Education, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Public sector

Keywords: CR, Government, GPRS approach, GPRS implementation, GPRS objective, GPRS proceeds, GPRS recommendation, GPRS., ISCR, Natural resource, Policy, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Poverty-growth elasticity, Public sector, West Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

13
Volume:

2003
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814828.002
Issue:

132
Series:

Country Report No. 2003/132
Stock No:

1GHAEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451814828
ISSN:

1934-7685

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