IMF Staff Country Reports

Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

September 14, 2005

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International Monetary Fund. "Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper", IMF Staff Country Reports 2005, 332 (2005), accessed 12/30/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835069.002

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Summary

This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. The National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper represents the result of analyses of the country’s current situation as well as a set of proposals designed to rout the causes of poverty in São Tomé and Príncipe in the medium to long term, based on creating the conditions that make development viable and promote the welfare of the population. This paper is prepared in response to a perception of the problems facing the country in different areas.

Subject: Education, Health, Population and demographics, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: causes of poverty São Tomé and Príncipe, civil society, CR, development partners Concertation Committee, economic growth, free zone, General State budget, government of São Tomé and Príncipe, ISCR, local government, natural resources, poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, poverty São Tomé and Príncipe, private sector, STP public debt, United Nations Children's Fund