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      "content": "- Reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach and efforts to build institutional statistical capacity to permit evidence-based monitoring of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).\n- Argues that integrating the PRS approach and statistical development strategies could provide significant synergies in improving the monitoring of the PRSP goals.\n- Posits that mainstreaming statistical strategies in development plans should enhance the national priority for statistical reforms and provide a basis for costing such reforms for incorporation into the medium-term expenditure framework.\n- Concludes that such an outcome is likely to facilitate funding for the implementation of these reforms and boost the effectiveness of statistical technical assistance."
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      "heading": "Findings and analysis",
      "content": "- Institutional statistical capacity is essential to permit evidence-based monitoring of PRSPs.\n- Integrating PRS approaches with statistical development strategies can create synergies that improve monitoring of PRSP goals.\n- Mainstreaming statistical strategies in national development plans:\n  - Enhances national priority for statistical reforms.\n  - Provides a basis for costing reforms for incorporation into the medium-term expenditure framework.\n  - Increases the likelihood of funding for implementation of statistical reforms.\n  - Boosts the effectiveness of statistical technical assistance."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommendations",
      "content": "- Mainstream statistical strategies into Poverty Reduction Strategy frameworks to:\n  - Raise the profile and priority of statistical reforms within national planning.\n  - Enable explicit costing of statistical reforms for medium-term expenditure frameworks.\n  - Improve prospects for securing funding for statistical capacity building.\n  - Enhance the effectiveness and alignment of statistical technical assistance."
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      "content": "- Author: Robin D Kibuka\n- Date: November 1, 2007\n- Pages: 39\n- Volume: 2007\n- Issue: 255\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2007/255\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451868180.001\n- Stock No: WPIEA2007255\n- ISBN: 9781451868180\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Subjects: Development strategy, Government finance statistics, Poverty reduction strategy, Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)\n- Keywords: country, information, process, sc, WP\n\nContent derived from the IMF working paper landing page for \"Mainstreaming Statistics in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Approach to Provide for More Effective Technical Assistance: Some Experience at the IMF\".\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp07255\n  - wp07255 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp07255 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/mainstreaming-statistics-in-the-poverty-reduction-strategy-approach-to-provide-for-more-21417"
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