The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: Findings from Ten Country Case Studies of World Bank and IMF Support - Operations Evaluation Studies (Hardback)

The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank--independent units reporting to their respective institutions' Executive Boards--recently completed parallel evaluations of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative, with particular attention to the role and effectiveness of World Bank and IMF support. A key source of evidence for the evaluations was a set of 10 country case studies, most completed in the second half of 2003, of countries that had completed a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). This volume contains summaries of those case studies.