## Bangladesh: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Status Report

_IMF Staff Country Reports, August 25, 2004_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 25, 2004
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451978711.002

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### Overview and purpose
- Presents the status report on Bangladesh’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
- Government prepared the Interim-PRSP (I-PRSP) in March 2003 and aimed to prepare the full PRSP by December 2004.
- The government adheres to the core principles of the PRSP: country-driven, results-oriented, comprehensive in scope, partnership-oriented, and fully participatory in nature.

### Timeline and process
- Target time span to complete full PRSP: 21 months.
- Comparative benchmark: average time reported by I-PRSP countries to complete full PRSPs: about 26 months.

### Key themes and focus areas
- Economic growth
- Inclusive growth
- Poverty
- Poverty reduction
- Poverty reduction strategy

### Keywords and terminology preserved from the source
- Bangladesh's PRSP
- core principles of PRSP
- CR
- I-PRSP
- I-PRSP country
- Inclusive growth
- ISCR
- Poverty reduction
- poverty reduction indicator
- Poverty reduction strategy
- preparation of PRSP
- PRSP process
- sc

### Publication and document specifics
- Pages: 57
- Volume: 2004
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451978711.002
- Issue: 279
- Series: Country Report No. 2004/279
- Stock No: 1BGDEA0032004
- ISBN: 9781451978711
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Publication date on landing page: August 25, 2004

*International Monetary Fund. "Bangladesh: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Status Report", IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 279 (2004), accessed 9/26/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451978711.002*

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