## The Gambia: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 2, 2009_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 2, 2009
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports

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### Overview
- The paper presents the Annual Progress report on The Gambia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.
- Publication date: March 2, 2009.

### Key Findings
- The government substantially reduced the stock of domestic arrears that had been due to contractors, consultants, and suppliers.
- The government liquidated all loans owed to the Parastatals.
- The dalasi appreciated by 32 percent in the later part of the third quarter of 2007, which helped to reduce dalasi payments against debt service obligations and other international payment obligations.

### Key Statistics
- Dalasi appreciation: 32 percent.
- Timeframe of appreciation: later part of the third quarter of 2007.

### Subject Areas and Keywords
- Subject: Education, Environment, Gender, Health, Labor, Women
- Keywords: basic education, community development, CR, development programme, financial support, Global, human resources, ISCR, local government, policy regime, private sector, State radio, West Africa, Women

_International Monetary Fund. "The Gambia: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report", IMF Staff Country Reports 2009, 075 (2009)._

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