Liberia’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (iPRS) sets out the emerging process and framework for recovery and reconstruction in the context of post-conflict Liberia. The iPRSP sets out the national socio-economic context, the preparatory process, dimensions of the emerging policy,...

This document presents a profile of poverty, and indicates briefly the stakes and challenges involved, using available quantitative and qualitative data to specify the targeted objectives to be reached. Actions to be taken are then positioned within a macroeconomic framework for which short- and...

This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—National Development Plan for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. The plan has been a participative process, involving constituents in every sector of the economy to identify the problems they face and to suggest solutions to...

This paper examines Congo’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP). Congo’s I-PRSP explains the features and causes of poverty in Congo. It provides a short- and medium-term vision of development as well as a strategic orientation for a return to sustainable and equitable growth....

The idea of human development, and the related index, has been developed and promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) largely through its annual Human Development Reports. In recent years it has become more closely associated with the work of Amartya Sen. Initially, the...

The paper tracks the effort to standardize measurement of a gender inequality resulting in the creation of an innovative Gender Inequality Index (GII). The aim of this paper is to identify the shortcomings and limitations of the GII and to open the discussion about the necessity of including...