Bhutan: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

August 11, 2004

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Bhutan: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 26, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses Bhutan’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The Royal Government of Bhutan has initiated the PRSP process as part of broader ongoing efforts to combat poverty. The main objective of the PRSP process is to strengthen the strategic framework for poverty reduction, improve donor coordination, and build support for new initiatives in public expenditure management and poverty monitoring and evaluation. The envisaged process builds directly on the Ninth Five-Year Plan (Ninth Plan).

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Education, Health, Income, National accounts, Population and demographics, Poverty

Keywords: Absolute poverty, Arable land, Capital expenditure outlay, Capital outlay, CR, Food grain, Global, Income, ISCR, Live births, Living standard, Plan target, Poverty line, Quality of life, Rate of inflation, South Asia

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Pages:

58
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2004/246
Stock No:

1BTNEA0012004
ISBN:

9781451806243
ISSN:

1934-7685

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