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Guyana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report 2004

December 14, 2004

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Guyana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report 2004, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This paper reviews Guyana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Progress Report 2004. In spite of many challenges, the government made progress in implementing its Poverty Reduction Program. In particular, it pursued prudent macroeconomic policies, which improved economic fundamentals and created the framework for sustainable growth. Priority attention was also given to implementing reforms to improve the institutional and regulatory frameworks, public accountability, confidence building in the judicial and political systems, local government reforms, and the protection of fundamental human rights.

Subject: Education, Health, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: Caribbean, Civil society, CR, Development programme, Diversification effort, Guyanese authorities, House title, Inter-American Development Bank, Investment programme, ISCR, Local government, Low income, Political system, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy, Private sector, Radio monopoly, Steering committee

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    86

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/407

  • Stock No:

    1GUYEA0022004

  • ISBN:

    9781451816761

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685