Sri Lanka: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

IMF Staff Country Reports, April 22, 2003

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• Published: April 22, 2003
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823424.002

Overview

• Publication type: IMF Staff Country Report.
• Date: April 22, 2003.
• Core purpose: Presents key findings of the Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Sri Lanka.
• Overall IMF staff judgment: The poverty reduction strategy constitutes an adequate policy framework to increase growth and reduce poverty, but successful implementation will require more work in key areas.

Key findings

• Sri Lanka has achieved substantial progress in human development.
• The economy exhibits external openness.
• Several factors have impeded Sri Lanka’s ability to realize its growth potential.
• The IMF staff considers the PRSP adequate as a policy framework for increasing growth and reducing poverty.

Constraints and impediments to growth

• Multiple unspecified factors have limited the country’s ability to realize its growth potential (the assessment identifies these as important barriers to be addressed).

Implementation gaps and policy priorities

• Successful implementation of the PRSP will require additional work in key areas (the document emphasizes implementation as the primary challenge going forward).
• Policy recommendations and reform agenda elements are focused on raising growth and reducing poverty through strengthened implementation of the PRSP.

Thematic coverage (as listed)

• Education
• Health
• Poverty
• Poverty reduction
• Poverty reduction strategy
• Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords (as listed)

• contingency policy
• CR
• Global
• government
• government plan
• ISCR
• labor market
• Middle East
• policy
• policy recommendation
• poverty diagnostic
• Poverty reduction
• Poverty reduction strategy
• private sector
• PRSP progress report
• PRSP reform agenda
• public expenditure

IMF Staff Country Report: "Sri Lanka: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper", April 22, 2003.

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