## Sierra Leone: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report: Joint Staff Advisory Note

_IMF Staff Country Reports, July 25, 2008_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 25, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451834635.002

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### Overview and purpose
- Document type: Joint Staff Advisory Note based on the June 2008 progress report.
- Main objective: Describe progress made on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) in Sierra Leone.
- Date on page: July 25, 2008.
- Core analytical focus: key elements of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS).

### Key elements analyzed in the progress report
- Macroeconomic performance.
- Good governance, peace, and security.
- Pro-poor sustainable growth for food security and job creation.
- Human resource development.
- Monitoring and evaluation of the PRS.

### Principal finding highlighted on the landing page
- The progress report correctly indicates that implementation of poverty reduction programs suffered setbacks owing to weak revenue performance and delays in external budget support since late 2006.

### Subject and keywords (as listed)
- Subject: Civil service reform, Food security, Job creation, Labor, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords (verbatim): Civil service reform, CR, crowding out poverty, expenditure program, Food security, fuel price hike, government, ISCR, Job creation, monetary policy, policy, Poverty reduction strategy, poverty-reducing expenditure, priority poverty-reducing program, PRS objective, revenue, sc

### Publication metadata (verbatim)
- Pages: 8
- Volume: 2008
- Issue: 251
- Series: Country Report No. 2008/251
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451834635.002
- Stock No: 1SLEEA2008003
- ISBN: 9781451834635
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Landing-page publication date: July 25, 2008
- Access citation example shown on page: International Monetary Fund. "Sierra Leone: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report: Joint Staff Advisory Note", IMF Staff Country Reports 2008, 251 (2008), accessed 9/12/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451834635.002

*Source: Sierra Leone: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report: Joint Staff Advisory Note (IMF web landing page).*

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