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Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Associated with Reductions in Poverty and Improvements in Well-being?

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  • Meg Elkins
  • Simon Feeny
  • David Prentice

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Should Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) be the tool for implementing the new Sustainable Development Goals, as they were for the Millennium Development Goals? Surprisingly, despite the controversies around them, there has never been a quantitative evaluation of PRSPs. This paper estimates the impact of having a PRSP on various targets of the Millennium Development Goals. Results suggest that countries under PRSP treatment achieve much greater reductions than control countries, in head count poverty and infant mortality, while also achieving greater improvements in primary school enrolments and gender parity.

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  • Meg Elkins & Simon Feeny & David Prentice, 2018. "Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Associated with Reductions in Poverty and Improvements in Well-being?," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(2), pages 377-393, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:54:y:2018:i:2:p:377-393
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1299140
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    1. Asadullah, M. Niaz & Savoia, Antonio, 2018. "Poverty reduction during 1990–2013: Did millennium development goals adoption and state capacity matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 70-82.
    2. Thomas Hickmann & Frank Biermann & Matteo Spinazzola & Charlotte Ballard & Maya Bogers & Oana Forestier & Agni Kalfagianni & Rakhyun E. Kim & Francesco S. Montesano & Tom Peek & Carole‐Anne Sénit & Me, 2023. "Success factors of global goal‐setting for sustainable development: Learning from the Millennium Development Goals," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(3), pages 1214-1225, June.
    3. Ricardo Gottschalk & Padmashree Gehl Sampath, 2021. "Infrastructure for Structural Transformation: A Comebackof Planning?," Journal of Infrastructure Development, India Development Foundation, vol. 13(1), pages 53-64, June.
    4. Matti Ylönen & Anna Salmivaara, 2021. "Policy coherence across Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Finland," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 39(5), pages 829-847, September.

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