mozambique: the imf's Action plan for the reduction of absolute poverty vs a view from the ground
30.10.2003
The IMF recently published an Implementation Evaluation Report (IER) on the Mozambican Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA). The report emphasises that even though, broadly generalized, aggregate statistics indicate progress, the poor are inadequately served. William Butt, of the Mozambican Christian Council (CCM) contrasts the IER's findings with those of the CCM in areas such as; Good Governance, Education, Health, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Infrastructure, and his broad conclusion is that since the PARPA is heavily influenced by the IMF's policy of free-market-inspired development, so far the results seem to indicate not even a "trickle down" outcome but a "trickle around" one.