IMF Staff Country Reports

Lesotho: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Status Report

December 6, 2004

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International Monetary Fund. "Lesotho: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Status Report", IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 386 (2004), accessed 12/24/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823806.002

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Summary

This Joint Staff Assessment reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Status Report for Lesotho. The report states that the authorities are in the final stages of completing the PRSP and expect to submit it to the Cabinet for approval by mid-October and to the Bank and the IMF by mid-November 2004. Consultations with community-based working and thematic groups were concluded by mid-2003. Subsequently, the authorities carried out detailed exercises regarding costing, development of performance indicators, and document preparation.

Subject: Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: costing exercise, CR, government, IDA adjustment lending, interim poverty reduction strategy paper, ISCR, Lesotho's interim poverty reduction strategy paper, Poverty reduction strategy, PRSP process, World Bank staff