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Under his leadership, the implementation of the three years Lifts Liberia Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS I) was accelerated resulting in a successful conclusion. Konneh is a core member of President Johnson Sirleaf's Economic Management Team and is credited with helping to stabilize the Liberian economy from the effects of a protracted civil war.
In his professional career at the Ministry of Finance, Liberia, he played key role in the development of successful strategic programs in Liberia including the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (2008–2011), Agenda for Transformation [1] (2012–2017), Liberia Public Finance Law of 2009 and took a technical lead role in the development of five ...
One of PRGF's goals is to ensure that impoverished nations re-channel the government funds freed from debt repayment into poverty-reduction programs. To that end, each country's PRGF program is modeled around a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). PRSPs describe the macroeconomic, structural, and social programs that a country will follow ...
Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Programme in Liberia: UNDP. Chicago; Doe, S. G. (2009). Indigenising post-war state reconstruction: the case of Liberia and Sierra Leone (Doctoral dissertation, University of Bradford). Chicago; Doe, S. G. (2010). Poverty reduction strategy in collapsed states: The case of Sierra Leone.
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are documents required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank before a country can be considered for debt relief within the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. [1] [2] PRSPs are also required before low-income countries can receive aid from most major donors and lenders. [2]
The economy of Liberia is extremely underdeveloped, with only $3.222 billion by gross domestic product as of 2019, largely due to the First (1989–1996) and Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003). Liberia itself is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world, according to the United Nations .
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. manufacturing contracted at a moderate pace in November, with orders growing for the first time in eight months and factories facing significantly lower prices for inputs.
In addition to engendering poverty and poverty interventions, a correlation between greater gender equality and greater poverty reduction and economic growth has been illustrated by research through the World Bank, suggesting that promoting gender equality through empowerment of women is a qualitatively significant poverty reduction strategy. [90]