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Annual Report 2003 : Moving the Poverty Reduction Agenda Forward: Priorities and Outcomes : The Pacific

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Marshall Islands

Strategy and Policy Dialogue. Poverty was associated with decreasing access to essential social services such as primary education, health, and potable water and also with a lack of jobs and markets. Poverty increased as a result of weak economic performance, poor public services, growing inequalities, and a decline in traditional support systems. Policy dialogue focused on improving public sector productivity; developing the private sector; and strengthening central governance to improve social services, create an environment conducive for private sector development, and strengthen central economic policy formulation and planning.

ADB’s assistance was designed to complement and augment all other external assistance. Traditional social order and dependence on relatively large levels of US funding may have deterred improvement in public and private sector productivity, including reforming traditional land tenure, private competition, and public sector management. This was addressed by fully incorporating participation at all levels of decision making for ADB activities.

Loans and Technical Assistance.
No loans were approved, but two technical assistance projects totaling $1 million were.

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