This research report provides preliminary findings from current research on institutional and process issues in national poverty policy in Benin, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.These are enabling government actions that improved the quality of public expenditure and allow the economy to respond to sound macroeconomic management. Specifically, the research has examined institutional mechanisms for mainstreaming the goal of poverty-reduction into processes of government decision-making. There is no assumption that these institutional innovations will be sufficient to achieve the ambitious poverty-reduction objectives, which governments have set for themselves in recent years. But they are at the very least, necessary. Moreover, their ultimate impact and replicability will be conditioned to a very large degree by the ability of governments to deploy these poverty-focused mechanisms in ways that complement other governance reforms which are underway across sub-Saharan Africa. In arguing for the suitability of specific mechanisms, therefore, this paper draws explicit links to recent literature on the political conditions, which facilitate "pro-poor poverty policy-making".
Bibliography: Brighton, Institute of Development Studies, 2001.
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