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Gambia --- History --- Dictionaries --- Gambie --- Colony of the Gambia --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambia, The --- The Gambia --- ガンビア --- Ganbia --- 冈比亚 --- Gangbiya --- Dictionaries. --- Gambia - History - Dictionaries

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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.

Folklore --- Griots --- Mandingo (African people) --- Music --- Performance --- History and criticism. --- Gambia --- Social life and customs. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Gambie --- Colony of the Gambia --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambia, The --- The Gambia --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Historians --- Storytellers --- ガンビア --- Ganbia --- History and criticism --- 冈比亚 --- Gangbiya

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This paper focuses on the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for The Gambia. Understandings have been reached with the authorities on the SMP covering the period October 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006. Key objectives of the program include making progress toward fiscal sustainability, strengthening internal controls and the operational independence of the Central Bank of The Gambia, and enhancing public financial management and accountability. Successful implementation of the SMP should pave the way for reaching understandings on a possible new arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).

International Monetary Fund --- Internationaal monetair fonds --- International monetary fund --- Gambia --- Colony of the Gambia --- Gambia, The --- Gambie --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Ganbia --- Gangbiya --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- The Gambia --- ガンビア --- 冈比亚 --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy. --- Budgeting --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Public Finance --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures --- Other Public Investment and Capital Stock --- National Budget --- Budget Systems --- Public finance & taxation --- Monetary economics --- Budgeting & financial management --- Expenditure --- Monetary base --- Capital spending --- Public financial management (PFM) --- Budget planning and preparation --- Money --- Expenditures, Public --- Money supply --- Capital investments --- Finance, Public --- Budget

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This Joint Staff Advisory Note discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for The Gambia. The Gambian authorities have prepared their second PRSP covering the years 2007 to 2011. The PRSP supports greater decentralization and expansion of social development funds to better target public services for the poor. Given that there has been limited progress in implementing the Local Government Act in 2002, the IMF staff recommends the preparation of a country-owned implementation plan and a sensitization program that would create momentum.

Poverty --- Finance, Public --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Gambia --- Colony of the Gambia --- Gambia, The --- Gambie --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Ganbia --- Gangbiya --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- The Gambia --- ガンビア --- 冈比亚 --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Appropriations and expenditures. --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Environmental Economics --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Education: General --- Public Enterprises --- Public-Private Enterprises --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Environmental Economics: General --- Public finance & taxation --- Civil service & public sector --- Education --- Environmental economics --- Public financial management (PFM) --- Expenditure --- Public sector --- Civil service reform --- Economic sectors --- Environment --- Expenditures, Public --- Civil service --- Environmental sciences

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A number of initiatives begun in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) remain incomplete and need to be further implemented in the new PRSP. Executive Directors recommend institutionalization of the PRSP process as a comprehensive approach to overall public policymaking. Strengthened governance is a fundamental cornerstone of the PRSP process. The Gambia has to sustain ongoing efforts, especially in strengthening public expenditure management, the investment climate, and internal controls at the central bank. It will be critical for the PRSP process to be open, transparent, and participatory.

Poverty --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Gambia --- Colony of the Gambia --- Gambia, The --- Gambie --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Ganbia --- Gangbiya --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- The Gambia --- ガンビア --- 冈比亚 --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Public Finance --- Environmental Economics --- Social Services and Welfare --- Government Policy --- Provision and Effects of Welfare Program --- Education: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Environmental Economics: General --- Social welfare & social services --- Education --- Public finance & taxation --- Environmental economics --- Poverty reduction --- Expenditure --- Environment --- Poverty reduction strategy --- Expenditures, Public --- Environmental sciences