Azerbaijan Republic: Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report

International Monetary Fund

No 2004/323, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper presents the Joint Staff Assessment on Azerbaijan Republic’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The incidence of poverty remains slightly higher among urban than rural households, and is associated with falling employment opportunities and earnings in the formal economy. Although Baku has the largest absolute number of urban poor, poverty incidence is highest in provincial towns. Setting up a system to monitor living standards has been a major achievement, but the monitoring of those standards for refugees and internally displaced persons has serious shortcomings.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; poverty reduction objective; monopoly power; SPPRED secretariat; State oil fund; government policy; government enterprise; government of Azerbaijan; Poverty reduction strategy; Poverty reduction; Poverty reduction and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2004-10-15
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