## 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

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### 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

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- **Ghana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Volume II; IMF Country Report No. 12/204; December 1, 2010**
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