TY - BOOK ID - 84546187 TI - Malawi : Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2003 SN - 1462345301 1452720150 1280890924 9786613732231 1451885172 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Budgeting KW - Diseases: AIDS and HIV KW - Social Services and Welfare KW - Poverty and Homelessness KW - Government Policy KW - Provision and Effects of Welfare Program KW - Education: General KW - Health Behavior KW - National Budget KW - Budget Systems KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Social welfare & social services KW - Education KW - HIV/AIDS KW - Budgeting & financial management KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Poverty reduction strategy KW - Poverty reduction KW - HIV and AIDS KW - Budget planning and preparation KW - Poverty KW - Health KW - HIV KW - Viruses KW - Budget KW - Malawi KW - Hiv and AIDS KW - Hiv KW - Hiv/AIDS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84546187 AB - This joint staff assessment evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Malawi’s poverty reduction strategy (MPRS), and considers whether the PRSP provides a sound basis for concessional assistance from the World Bank and IMF, as well as for debt relief under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative. The annual review of the MPRS highlighted the reduced allocation of budgetary resources to pro-poor activities and the slow progress made in implementing structural and sectoral policy measures, and assesses that the implementation of the MPRSP has been unsatisfactory. ER -