TY - BOOK ID - 84543696 TI - The Gambia : Selected Issues. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2000 SN - 1455231932 1452765766 1280899441 1452743797 9786613740755 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Poverty and Homelessness KW - Education: General KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Health: General KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Education KW - Health economics KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Income KW - Health KW - Expenditure KW - Poverty KW - National accounts KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Gambia, The UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84543696 AB - The note views the problem of poverty in The Gambia. The largest group of cash crop producers have the highest poverty rate in the country. The design of public policies in the area of education and health has a large impact on the living standards of the poor. Therefore, these social policies have to be supported by policies that enhance the poor households' access and use of formal financial services. The note discusses the Gambian government's attempts to address the growing incidence of poverty. ER -