Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe : second national poverty reduction strategy II (2012-2016) : final version - March 2012

• Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (138 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - Sao Tome and Principe - Prevention
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INDEX OF TABLES AND FIGURES; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; 1. PRIOR CONSIDERATIONS; 2. OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS OF NPRS-I IMPLEMENTATION; 3. FEATURES OF THE CURRENT PROFILE OF POVERTY; Tables and figures; List of tables; Table 1. São Tomé and Príncipe: Distribution of monetary poverty (%) 2000-2010; Table 2. São Tomé and Príncipe: Distribution of monetary poverty (%) 2010; Table 3. São Tomé and Príncipe: Poverty indices by gender of head of household; List of figures; Figure 1 - Distribution of poverty by socioeconomic group, 2010 (Percentages) ; Figure 2 - Rate of unemployment of individuals aged 15 and over, by poverty status Table 4. São Tomé and Príncipe: Average spending on health and education (%); Table 5. São Tomé and Príncipe: Literacy rates by level of poverty; Figure 3 - Inequality index (Gini Index); 4. OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION; 4.1. Good governance and management of public assets; 4.1.1. Political governance; 4.1.2. Judicial governance; 4.1.3. Administrative governance; 4.1.4. Local governance; 4.1.5. Financial governance and transparency in public financial management ; 4.2 Analysis of the macroeconomic framework and the productive sectors 4.2.1 Macroeconomic framework; Economic growth; Figure 4 - Real GDP growth (Percentages); Table 6. São Tomé and Príncipe: Real GDP growth by sector activity and sectoral contribution to GDP (%); Figure 5 - Annual change in the CPI; Figure 6 - Changes in primary income and expenses; Figure 7 - Change in the primary balance; Figure 8 - Changes in the monetary gap; Table 7. São Tomé and Príncipe: Public investment program by sector of activity (% of total); Figure 9 - Changes in the External Debt ; Figure 10 - Changes in the current account balance Figure 11 - Exchange rate volatility (2001-2011); Figure 12 - Reference interest rate; 4.2.2. Change in the production sectors and the business climate; Table 8. São Tomé and Príncipe: Change in unemployment and underemployment rates (%); Figure 13 - Job creation by sector of activity (Percentages); Table 9. São Tomé and Príncipe: Agricultural production, 2000-2009 (metric tons); Table 10. São Tomé and Príncipe: Changes in national livestock numbers and domestic meat production volume, 2005-2010 ; Table 11. São Tomé and Príncipe: Number of fishing boats and catches, 2005-2007 Figure 14 - Small-scale and semi-industrial fishing catch in STP, 2001-2010; Table 12. São Tomé and Príncipe: Volume of trees felled, 2000-2003 (m[sup(3)]); Table 13. São Tomé and Príncipe: Entry of tourists and sightseers, 2000-2010; Table 14. São Tomé and Príncipe: Business climate ranking; 4.3. Social sectors, poverty, and Millennium Development Goals; 4.3.1. Performance of the basic social sectors; Table 15 - São Tomé and Príncipe: Indicators of the effectiveness of basic education (2007/2008) ; Table 16 - São Tomé and Príncipe: Summary of basic welfare indicators: health (%)
• Sommario/riassunto: Executive Summary The first NPRS was drafted in 2002 and the authorities promised to reduce the percentage of the Saotomean population living in poverty (53.8 percent) by half in 2010 and by two-thirds in 2015,and to decrease the percentage of the population living in extreme poverty from 15.1 percent to 4.9 percent.In December 2005 a Priority Action Program (PAP 2006-2008) was submitted to the partners at the Brussels Round Table with a view to forming a partnership for good governance and poverty reduction that would make it possible to respond to the need to achieve the Millennium Development Goa
• Titolo autorizzato: Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
• ISBN: 1-4843-4743-9; 1-4843-4714-5; 1-4843-4791-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464039003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF country report ; ; no. 14/9.