Democratic Republic of the Congo : poverty reduction strategy paper.

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"July 2013."

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper on the Democratic Republic of Congo discusses economic policies and development. The macroeconomic and budget framework has been developed to take into account the effects of sectoral policies to maintain macroeconomic stability, a necessary condition for laying the foundation of economic growth and poverty reduction. It is based on the profile of public spending, the assessment of costs for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2020, and the sector-based economic growth theories taking into account the uncertainties of the international environment and the real potential of the Congolese economy. It is found that it allows for a realistic programming of public spending while highlighting the main budgetary choices proposed by the government.

Cover; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; FOREWORD; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; List of Boxes; Box 1. Reminder on the GPRSP 1 process in DRC; List of figures; Figure 1. Operationalisation framework of the Poverty Reduction Strategy; Box 2. What is a PRSP?; CHAPTER 1. RECENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION; POVERTY PROFILE; 1.1.1. Monetary Poverty; 1.1.2. Non monetary poverty; Box 3. Simulation of Poverty in the DRC: Methodology of Simulatio; List of tables; Table 1. Distribution of mortality of Congolese children according to the socio-economic group.

Figure 2. Mortality of Congolese childrenTable 2. Fairness in access to health services in the DRC; Figure 3. Net Primary enrollment rate; Figure 4. Appreciation of households; Box 4. Progress towards the MDGs; Table 3. Evolution of indicators of MDGs; 1.3. MAIN CAUSES OF POVERTY; Table 4. Doing Business (DB) Indicators for 2010-2011; Box 5. Main obstacles to economic growth in the DRC; Figure 5. Evolution of the economic growth rate and inflation rate; Figure 6. Indicators of flow-of-funds table of the State and balance of payment (in % of GDP); Figure 7. Sources of growth in the DRC.

Figure 8. Value added of sectors at provincial level1.3.3. Employment gap; Table 5. Evolution of social expenditures (as a % of total expenditure); Figure 9. Evolution of rate and average employment; 1.4. CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS; Figure 10. Customs duties on consumer goods per centile of Revenue Distribution; CHAPTER 2. STRATEGIC PILLARS OF THE GPRS 2; 2.1. DEVELOPMENT VISION AND OPPORTUNITIES; Box 6. Vision 26/25; 2.2. MAIN OPTIONS OF THE STRATEGY; 2.3. PILLAR 1: STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE AND PEACE; 2.3.1. Strengthening State authority.

Table 6. Global and sector objectives of the strategy2.3.3. Pursuing the public finance reform; Box 7. Key actions of the Strategic Plan for Public Finance Reform; Box 8. Performance indicators; 2.3.4. Improving the business climate and promoting the private sector; Box 9. Why the performance?; 2.3.5. Building institutional and human capacities and modernizing the public administration; 2.3.6. Supporting the planning set up and the national statistics system; 2.3.6. Restructuring the Central Bank of Congo; Box 10. DRC Statistics: Problems of data comparability.

2.4. PILLAR 2: DIVERSIFYING THE ECONOMY, ACCELERATING GROWTH AND PROMOTING EMPLOYMENT2.4.1. Boosting agriculture and ensuring food security and the well-being of rural dwellers; 2.4.2. Developing support infrastructure for production activities; Box 11. Forestry Code; 2.4.4. Promoting foreign trade; 2.4.5. Promote employment; Box 12. Job creation and achievement of MDGs; 2.4.6. Developing the country and cities; 2.4.7. Formalizing the informal sector; 2.4.8. Promoting spatial development; 2.5. PILIER 3. IMPROVING ACCESS TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES AND STRENGTHENING HUMAN CAPITAL.

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