Policies to roll-back the State and privatise?: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers investigated
2001
A. Marshall | J. Woodroffe | P. Kjell
The findings in this report are based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.The report concludes that:across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papersgovernment ownership of PRSPs is weakened by the continued influence of the International Monetary Fund and World Bankthe policy content of these strategies does not constitute a major change from the past. This is particularly worrying given the substantial body of evidence showing that structural adjustment programmes did not reduce povertyalthough the rhetoric in the strategies is poverty focussed, the actual policies included do not have clear poverty reducing consequences. The strategies focus on economic growth without, on the most part, addressing how this growth is to be redistributed to the poorthe core macro-economic elements have changed little from the old structural adjustment programmes with a continued adherence to privatisation, liberalisation and a reduced role for the state
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