@article{c53b12e047b146ccadefd44ee8b68150,
title = "The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: An analysis of a hegemonic link between education and poverty",
abstract = "This paper has two main objectives. First, it aims to analyse the connections between education and poverty established by the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), a central policy tool for the articulation of the Post Washington Consensus. Second, it intends to study how the PRSPs have been consolidated and expanded through different international organisations. With these objectives, the paper includes four sections: the first and second sections present the 'model of poverty' and the 'model of education' defined in the PRSPs. The third analyses how different international actors have adopted the PRSPs as a guide to orient their strategies and policies in the field of education, development and poverty reduction. The fourth and final section critically explores the current global development agenda and identifies some of its main challenges in terms of conceptualisation and implementation.",
keywords = "Development, Educational policy, Hegemony, International donors, Poverty reduction, World bank",
author = "Aina Tarabini and Judith Jacovkis",
note = "Funding Information: On one hand, the PRSPs have become one of the main bases of EU programming under the European Development Fund (EDF). The EDF is the main instrument for providing community aid for development cooperation in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and overseas countries and territories (OCTs). It is an extra-budgetary fund – i.e., it is funded by member states and not by the overall EU budget – that consists of grants, risk capital and concessional loans. Under the EDF framework, the EC has elaborated specific programming guidelines for developing countries to define and plan their strategies to reduce poverty and enhance development. Country strategy papers (CSPs) and regional strategy papers (RSPs) have been adopted by the Commission, which is responsible for harmonising programming guidelines, providing support and guidance in the preparation of strategic documents and making recommendations for draft strategic documents. In this context, the EC has decided to use the PRSPs as the main basis for its CSPs: thus the PRSPs have become the framework for defining both national and regional priorities and strategies. Funding Information: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 10th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development, 15–17 September 2009, New College, Oxford. The paper has been produced as part of a research project, “Advances in and shortcomings of Education for All: the politics of the educational agenda, trends in educational inequality, and the quality of democracy in Latin America”. The project was funded by Spain's Ministry of Science and Technology , Reference Number EDU2008-00816. ",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.02.014",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "507--516",
journal = "International Journal of Educational Development",
issn = "0738-0593",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "4",
}
