Over the past years, poverty reduction has been explicitly driving the development agenda. In 1999, World Bank and IMF agreed that nationally owned participatory poverty reduction strategies should provide the basis for all concessional lending and for debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) put this approach into effect and describe a country's macroeconomic, structural and social policies and programs to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. At the turn of the millenium world leaders agreed on ambitious targets for reducing poverty and improving lives by 2015: the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). In summary the MDGs focus on poverty eradication, improving access to primary education, enhancing gender equity, improving health (notably by reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases) and ensuring environmental sustainability. Since then most of the bilateral donor agencies also made poverty reduction and reaching the MDGs the main area for their support.
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Keywords:
HEALTH, MACROECONOMICS, POVERTY MITIGATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH PLANNING, ECONOMIC POLICY, HEALTH, INVESTMENTS, DISEASES, HEALTH ECONOMICS, POVERTY, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH INDICATORS, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, HEALTH CENTRES, PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL, RURAL HEALTH, AID PROGRAMMES, HEALTH AID
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World Health Organization
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10.02.00
- Comprehensive Health Services
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