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created chronic poverty into account, or that the post-tsunami constructionboom (World Vision, 2007, p. 9) allow those who had been ‘dragged’into poverty to recover.Sri Lanka also saw a post-tsunami reconstruction boom (Gunatilleke,2006, p. 112). However, the restarting of the war has complicated thepicture enormously by injecting a potentially new driver for poverty .2.7 Addressing both short term and chronic povertyTo what extent has recovery programming been realistic and aware of the differentapproaches needed to address short-term transient poverty versus more chronic poverty?There are two issues here, the need to address existing pre-tsunamichronic poverty and the risk that the tsunami forced the poor into longterm poverty. There is widespread recognition that disasters have thepotential to force the poor further into chronic poverty (Global Networkof NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2008, pp. 17, 21, 25, 30, 58;Oxfam International, 2007b, p. 2). Christoplos stated that chronic povertyhad increased after the tsunami due to the loss of a range of assets(Christoplos, 2006, p. 61).de Ville de Goyet (2008) makes the point that humanitarian organisations, for philosophical reasons, tend not to distinguish between theimpact of disasters and pre-existing chronic poverty .2.8 Integration with national pro poor programmingTo what extent has there been an integration of recovery efforts with national policiesto promote pro-poor growth and consolidate social protection ?Christoplos noted the virtual absence of references to Poverty ReductionStrategy Paper s (PRSPs) in the original TEC reference set (2006, p.63). This has changed with over 3% of documents in the present corereference set referring to PRSPs. However, Barnett notes that the PRSPwas never formally adopted in Indonesia (2007, p. 13).In Indonesia , pro-poor programming is largely the responsibility oflocal government rather than national government (World Bank , 2006c,p. 41). The Indonesia public expenditure review notes that good progresshad been made in moving from subsidies to pro-poor programs (WorldBank, 2007a, p. xvi).However, it is not clear to what extent, if at all, recovery efforts havebeen integrated with pro-poor policies .31