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Republic of Armenia Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

This paper presents a Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Republic of Armenia’s Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Armenia’s poverty and extreme poverty rates declined in 2006 to 26.5 percent and 4.1 percent of the population, respectively—results which surpassed PRSP-1 projections. Inequa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2008
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Provision And Effects Of Welfare Program
Social Security And Public Pensions
Public Finance & Taxation
Poverty Reduction
Social Welfare & Social Services
Poverty And Homelessness
Social Services And Welfare
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Expenditure
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Welfare, Well-being, And Poverty: General
Poverty & Precarity
Expenditures, Public
Pension Reform
Pensions
Poverty
Public Finance
Government Policy
Armenia, Republic Of
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This paper presents a Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Republic of Armenia’s Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Armenia’s poverty and extreme poverty rates declined in 2006 to 26.5 percent and 4.1 percent of the population, respectively—results which surpassed PRSP-1 projections. Inequality also decreased to a rate below the PRSP-1 goal, as measured by a reduction in the Gini coefficient from 0.395 in 2004 to 0.369 in 2006. Prudent fiscal and monetary policies were instrumental in maintaining macroeconomic stability and contributing to poverty reduction
Physical Description:12 pages
ISBN:9781451801712

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