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Rural poverty approaches, policies & strategies in the Gambia
Since the mid-1980s, The Gambia has implemented economic policies favouring macroeconomic stability, market liberalization and private-sector development. In 1998, the Government adopted a long-term strategy, The Gambia Incorporated Vision 2020, a blueprint for accelerated and sustainable development, which aims to transform the nation into a middle-income country by the next decade. The Gambia’s key framework for poverty reduction and food security is outlined in the Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP II) for the period 2007-2011. The PRSP II builds on the development objectives of attaining the MDGs and Vision 2020, and defines the overall government strategy for achieving growth, sustainable development and poverty reduction. It recognizes that poverty reduction in rural areas requires significant investment in three priority sectors: agriculture, health and education.
In mid-2009, the Government drafted the National Agriculture Investment Programme (2010-2015) to guide pro-poor investments. Although the Government is party to the Maputo Declaration, which obliges national governments to allocate at least 10 per cent of their annual national budget to agriculture, its annual budget allocation to the agriculture sector remains less than 5 per cent.
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Rural poverty in Gambia (The)
Progress on the Millennium Development Goals:
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