Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Associated with Reductions in Poverty and Improvements in Well-being?
首次定量评估减贫战略文件（PRSP）对千年发展目标的影响，发现实施PRSP的国家在贫困率、婴儿死亡率、小学入学率和性别平等方面改善更大。
Should Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) be the tool for implementing the new Sustainable Development Goals, as they were for the Millennium Development Goals? Surprisingly, despite the controversies around them, there has never been a quantitative evaluation of PRSPs. This paper estimates the impact of having a PRSP on various targets of the Millennium Development Goals. Results suggest that countries under PRSP treatment achieve much greater reductions than control countries, in head count poverty and infant mortality, while also achieving greater improvements in primary school enrolments and gender parity.