This paper presents the Annual Progress Report (APR) 2004 on Senegal’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The APR analyzes the 2004 macroeconomic framework for the purpose of comparing the forecasts under the various scenarios and the results obtained. Budgetary programming and...

Heritage is taking a growing place in regional planning policies. We want to approach this concept using the specific resource tools built from research in localized production systems. This allows us to cross-analyse the concepts of resource and heritage, which helps us to complete our initial...

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...

The emergence of Community Economic Development (CED) as a distinct field of cause lawyering highlights the complexities of community mobilization in the post-regulatory state. Defined by a set of social policies and grassroots practices that promote neighborhood revitalization, CED is...

Community-based (and driven) development (CBD) projects have become an important form of development assistance, with the World Bank's portfolio alone approximating 7 billion dollars. This paper reviews the conceptual and empirical foundations of CBD/CDD initiatives. Given the importance of the...

Social entrepreneurship, an element of “new social economy", operating under the Third Sector, is able to capture in an innovative way and to satisfy these social needs, which are unlikely to be fulfilled by the charity institutions and the state, due to their bureaucratic attitude, resisting...