Nicaragua : : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820341603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-4623-7455-7; 1-4527-2318-4; 1-280-88308-1; 9786613724397; 1-4518-8573-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (15 pages)
• Collana: IMF Staff Country Reports
• Soggetti: Public Finance; Social Services and Welfare; Poverty and Homelessness; Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Program; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General; Health: General; Social welfare & social services; Poverty & precarity; Public finance & taxation; Health economics; Poverty reduction; Poverty reduction strategy; Poverty; Public financial management (PFM); Health; Finance, Public; Nicaragua
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Background -- SGPRS - Progress and Challenges -- The NDP - A Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Chapter 1: Citizen Participation -- 1.1 The Will of the Country -- 1.2 The Participatory Process in the NDP Construction -- 1.3 Coordinating Sector Forums Process, and Harmonizing and Aligning Cooperation -- Chapter 2: Evolution of Poverty and NDP Goals -- 2.1 Evolution of Poverty -- 2.2 Objectives, Goals, and Indicators -- 2.3 Funding -- 2.4 A Plan to reduce inequality among Nicaraguans -- Chapter 3: Economic Growth for Poverty Reduction -- 3.1 Regulatory framework and paperwork procedures -- 3.2 Property rights -- 3.3 Financial services -- 3.4 Export promotion and attraction of investments -- 3.5 Increased productivity through the development of clusters -- 3.5.1 Tourism -- 3.5.2 Coffee -- 3.5.3 Beef and dairy products -- 3.5.4 Shrimp farming -- 3.5.5 Forestry and wood products -- 3.5.6 Light manufacture -- 3.5.7 Other products (oilseed, fruit, cocoa, plantains, and others) -- 3.6 Rural Development -- 3.7 The Development of a Special Region: the Caribbean Coast -- 3.8 Environmental Sustainability -- Chapter 4: Development of Human Capital and Social Protection -- 4.1 Education -- 4.2 Health and Nutrition -- 4.3 Training and Formation -- 4.4 Labor Sector -- 4.5 Social Protection -- 4.6 Social Security -- 4.7 Costs for the Development of Human Capital and Social Protection -- 4.8 Service Provider Centers (CPS): Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of the Policy -- Chapter 5: Public Investments for the Productive Development of Human Capital -- 5.1 Infrastructure for Development -- 5.2 The investment policy: economic growth and human capital development -- 5.2.1 Highways, rural roads, ports, and airports.; 5.2.2 Social Infrastructure for the Development of Human Capital -- 5.2.3 Environmental Infrastructure -- 5.2.4 Energy -- 5.2.5 Systems for Promotion, Monitoring, and Evaluation -- 5.3 Total Cost for Productive and Social Infrastructure -- Chapter 6: Governance and State Reform -- 6.1 Governance for the 2001-2005 Period -- 6.2 The National System for Participation and the Pursuit of Concerted Agreements -- 6.3 Reform and Modernization of Public Administration -- 6.4 Decentralization -- 6.5 Other Institutional Reforms -- Chapter 7: Macroeconomic Program -- 7.1. Quantitative goals -- 7.2. PRGF Performance -- 7.3. Policy and Structural Reforms -- 7.4. Financing Public Spending -- 7.5. Prospects for HIPC Resources -- 7.6. Poverty Spending and Financing -- Chapter 8: Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation -- 8.1. Implementation -- 8.2. Follow-Up and Evaluation -- 8.2.1. Systems -- 8.2.2. Evaluations -- 8.2.3. Reports -- Annex 1 Matrix of Goals and Actions 2006-2010 -- Annex 2 Redefinition of Poverty Spending -- Annex 3 The Poverty Map, Social Marginality, and Territorial Economic Potential -- Annex 4 III Progress Report for the SGPRS.
• Sommario/riassunto: Nicaragua’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses several strategic policies for boosting medium-term economic growth. The role of the private sector as the main engine of growth through the stimulation of investment and exports is underscored. It also emphasizes the objective of broad-based economic growth that promotes employment and rural development. To this end, the authorities intend to improve the investment climate, increase public infrastructure spending, enhance investment in human capital, and strengthen protection of vulnerable groups.