Togo: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

IMF Staff Country Reports, May 23, 2008

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• Published: May 23, 2008
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836639.002

Overview

• This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) reviews Togo's Interim-Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP).
• The I-PRSP is aimed to strengthen political and economic governance, support economic recovery, and reduce poverty.
• The I-PRSP recognizes challenges to achieve the MDGs and the risks to its implementation and paved the way for Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) consideration.
• The JSAN urged the authorities to deepen the analysis on the links between growth policies and sectoral programs and expenditures and their impact on poverty reduction.
• Executive Directors assessed the key PRSP implementation risks such as capacity constraints, political tensions, and adverse economic shocks.

Main findings and analysis

• I-PRSP objectives:
  • Strengthen political and economic governance.
  • Support economic recovery.
  • Reduce poverty.
• Recognition of implementation risks:
  • Challenges to achieve the MDGs.
  • Capacity constraints.
  • Political tensions.
  • Adverse economic shocks.
• Analytical gap identified:
  • Need to deepen analysis on the links between growth policies and sectoral programs and expenditures and their impact on poverty reduction.
• Programmatic implication:
  • The I-PRSP’s identification of risks and objectives paved the way for PRGF consideration.

Policy recommendations

• Deepen analysis of how growth policies translate into sectoral programs and expenditures and how these affect poverty reduction.
• Address capacity constraints to improve PRSP implementation.
• Manage political tensions to reduce implementation risk.
• Strengthen resilience to adverse economic shocks to safeguard PRSP outcomes.

Publication and document specifics

• Publication date: May 23, 2008
• Pages: 10
• Volume: 2008
• Issue: 166
• Series: Country Report No. 2008/166
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836639.002
• Stock No: 1TGOEA2008003
• ISBN: 9781451836639
• ISSN: 1934-7685
• Format: Download PDF available; Full text also available in français

Subjects and keywords

• Subject: Education, Health, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Poverty reduction strategy
• Keywords: authorities' I-PRSP, CR, full PRSP, Global, governance, government, I-PRSP policy measure, ISCR, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRS priority, PRSP outline, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

International Monetary Fund. "Togo: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper", IMF Staff Country Reports 2008, 166 (2008).

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