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The paper adopts a Millennium Development Goal framework toexplore the question of the required growth and investment rates to reducepoverty by half over two alternative time horizons (10 and 15 years starting2005) in post-conflict Sudan. It is shown that the required GDP growth rateranges between 7.9 to 6.2 percent per annum with corresponding requiredinvestment/GDP ratios of 0.34 and 0.26 for the shorter and longer time horizonsrespectively. The South/North required GDP growth rates and investment ratios,as well as the overall resource gaps to be filled by foreign assistance, arealso reported. In the context of the signed peace protocols the paper alsonotes the major economic policy challenges facing the country.