Poverty reduction strategy statistics

• PRSPs are currently on the agendas of about seventy low-income countries around the world
• 43 countries have a poverty reduction strategy paper and 60 per cent have a progress report
• From a sample of 139 countries, 97 countries - 70 per cent - have or are in the process of formulating a poverty reduction strategy
• Of these 97 countries almost half are implementing a PRSP, almost 1/3 a PRS , while the rest are in the process of formulating a strategy
• In sub-saharan Africa and in Eastern and Central Europe PRSP prevails
• In Near East and North Africa, half of the countries have developed or are developing strategies outside the PRSP framework
• In Asia, many and the most populous coutnries have developed best practice national PRS processes outside the PRSP framework
• In Latin America, most countries have a strategy for poverty reduction, with a majority of PRS outside the PRSP framework

Sources: World Bank and IFAD

 

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