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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Kingdom of Lesotho: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the National Strategic Development Plan
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Lesotho’s National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) serves as an implementation strategy for the national vision. It recognizes the significant challenges Lesotho faces in reducing poverty and making growth more broad-based. Overall, it presents a coherent analysis and offers an appropriate path forward to sustained poverty reduction and sustainable economic growth. Executive Directors find that a well-designed implementation and monitoring framework is necessary. Implementation of the NSDP will be a key challenge.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; NSDP program; NSDP secretariat; NSDP government; NSDP pillar; NSDP target; NSDP implementation; Poverty reduction strategy; Africa
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Botswana: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund
Poverty and unemployment remained high in Botswana. The shortcomings of the labor market policies are responsible for a high unemployment rate. This selected issues paper sheds considerable light on ways that Botswana can enhance inclusive growth and reduce the high level of structural unemployment. Botswana was identified as having been able to sustain the highest economic growth compared with others in its league. Assessors suggest a prudent labor market for an overall sustained economic growth.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; SACU Compared; SACU country; income; Gini coefficient; Gini Coefficients Between SACU; SACU region; labor income; union density; cash earnings; SACU unemployment rate; SACU member; Income inequality; Labor markets; Unemployment rate; Unemployment; Income distribution; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mr. Sanjeev Gupta
,
Ms. Catherine A Pattillo
, and
Ms. Smita Wagh
This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating effect, and promote financial development. These findings hold even after factoring in the reverse causality between remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access point for "unbanked" individuals and households, and that the effective use of such flows can mitigate the costs of skilled out-migration in SSA.
Keywords:
WP; remittance
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Kingdom of Lesotho: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, Prioritization, and Cost Matrix
International Monetary Fund
This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and sustainable equity-based economic growth. It contains medium-term objectives and strategies to address the major challenges facing the country. These challenges include employment creation and income generation, and improving quality of and access to education and health services. Lesotho plans to deal boldly with its trading and investment partners by exploiting the opportunities inherent in the process of globalization under such mechanisms as the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; poverty reduction strategy paper; poverty reduction strategy paper cost matrix; tree planting; Establish pollution; Lesotho Lowlands water supply feasibility study; HIV and AIDS; Africa; Global; Southern Africa
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Kingdom of Lesotho: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund
The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities established sector working groups to facilitate the formulation of informed policies that respond to the identified priorities. To deal with cross-cutting issues, thematic groups have been established. The private sector, despite weak organizational capacity at the beginning, made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; PRS set; a number of government document; government of the Kingdom of Lesotho; Lesotho's PRS; poverty diagnosis; authorities' priority; government commitment; Poverty reduction; Poverty reduction strategy; HIV and AIDS; Southern Africa
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Lesotho: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report
International Monetary Fund
This paper examines Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Progress Report for the period between January and December 2002. The achievements demonstrate that the government of Lesotho has reaffirmed its commitment to a highly participatory approach and process of preparing a community-driven and country-owned national strategy to fight poverty. The effort to measure poverty at the national level, through the National Human Development Index and the Core Welfare Indicator Survey dovetailed with the Household Budget Survey, is progressing well with completion of the latter foreseen by May 2003.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; government secretary; poverty reduction strategy document; The PRSP Secretariat; PRSP process; PRSP secretariat; government machinery; draft PRSP document; co-ordinating authority; PRSP formulation process; PRSP discussion; Poverty reduction strategy