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  "title": "Cape Verde: Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II (2008-11) Joint Staff Advisory Note",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, July 24, 2008",
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  "summary": "This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper–II for Cape Verde. Important progress was made in poverty reduction, but rural poverty still remains high.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Focus: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper–II for Cape Verde.\n- Main point: Important progress was made in poverty reduction, but rural poverty still remains high.\n- Millennium Development Goal status: The strategy reports that Cape Verde is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015.\n- Remaining challenge: The gap between urban and rural income growth is still wide; efforts to raise rural incomes further and a more effective design of social inclusion programs are needed."
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      "content": "- Progress in poverty reduction has been important and measurable.\n- Rural poverty remains high despite overall progress.\n- Urban-rural income growth disparity persists and is sizable enough to warrant targeted interventions."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommendations",
      "content": "- Raise rural incomes further through targeted policies and programs.\n- Design more effective social inclusion programs to address remaining pockets of poverty and to close the urban-rural income gap."
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      "content": "- Subject: Economic sectors, Education, National accounts, Poverty\n- Keywords: CR, Energy sector, Global, Infrastructure, ISCR, monetary management, open economy, outcome indicator, poverty diagnosis, poverty pocket, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, reduction expenditure, state, Sub-Saharan Africa\n\nSource: Cape Verde: Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II (2008-11) Joint Staff Advisory Note, July 24, 2008.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- The Cape Verde authorities’ second Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy\n  - The Cape Verde authorities’ second Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - The Cape Verde authorities’ second Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: July 24, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451809497.002",
    "Focus: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper–II for Cape Verde.",
    "Main point: Important progress was made in poverty reduction, but rural poverty still remains high.",
    "Millennium Development Goal status: The strategy reports that Cape Verde is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015.",
    "Remaining challenge: The gap between urban and rural income growth is still wide; efforts to raise rural incomes further and a more effective design of social inclusion programs are needed.",
    "Progress in poverty reduction has been important and measurable.",
    "Rural poverty remains high despite overall progress.",
    "Urban-rural income growth disparity persists and is sizable enough to warrant targeted interventions.",
    "Raise rural incomes further through targeted policies and programs.",
    "Design more effective social inclusion programs to address remaining pockets of poverty and to close the urban-rural income gap.",
    "Subject: Economic sectors, Education, National accounts, Poverty",
    "Keywords: CR, Energy sector, Global, Infrastructure, ISCR, monetary management, open economy, outcome indicator, poverty diagnosis, poverty pocket, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, reduction expenditure, state, Sub-Saharan Africa",
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