## Ghana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 6, 2003_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 6, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814798.002

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### Summary
- This report highlights Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
- The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) represents comprehensive policies, strategies, programs, and projects to support growth and poverty reduction from 2002 to 2004.
- The GPRS will also focus on providing the enabling environment that will empower all Ghanaians to participate in wealth creation and to partake in the wealth created.
- The GPRS aims at removing key obstacles to access and use, by the poor, of basic education, health care, population control, good drinking water, and improved sanitation.

### Objectives and Focus Areas
- Support growth and poverty reduction during 2002 to 2004.
- Provide an enabling environment for broad-based participation in wealth creation.
- Remove obstacles to access and use of:
  - basic education
  - health care
  - population control
  - good drinking water
  - improved sanitation

### Subjects and Keywords
- Subject: Education, Health, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy
- Keywords: activity cost, civil society, cost, CR, Global, governance, GPRS consist, GPRS cost estimate, GPRS objective, GPRS programme, ISCR, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, private sector, provision, West Africa

*International Monetary Fund — Ghana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 056).*

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