Ghana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Volume II
IMF Staff Country Reports, July 27, 2012
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Bibliographic details
- Published: July 27, 2012
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475506600.002
Summary overview
- Discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS I) and the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II) that addressed the critical poverty issues in Ghana.
- States that GPRS I is "a comprehensive policy document prepared as a precondition for Ghana under the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative."
- Identifies human development as the main component, targeting improvement for Ghana’s population to access basic needs and essential services.
- Presents a general assessment that "Ghana has a positive and significantly stabilized macroeconomic environment."
Major themes and focus areas
- Human development: improvement of population access to basic needs and essential services.
- Poverty reduction strategies: GPRS I and GPRS II as frameworks addressing critical poverty issues.
- Macroeconomic environment: stability and positive assessment noted.
Subject coverage and keywords
- Subjects: Development, Development strategy, Education, Health, Infrastructure, National accounts, Technology
- Keywords: capital investment, cost centre, CR, development policy framework, Development strategy, economic planning, Infrastructure, ISCR, national budget, natural resource, policy intervention, policy objective, resource allocation, value chain, West Africa
Content in this bundle
- Ghana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Volume II; IMF Country Report No. 12/204; December 1, 2010