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Middle East and Central Asia > Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
République islamique de Mauritanie: rapport des services du FMI pour les consultations de 2024 au titre de l’article IV, troisièmes revues des accords au titre de la facilité élargie de crédit et du mécanisme élargi de crédit, demande de modification de critères de réalisation quantitatifs et deuxième revue de l’accord au titre de la facilité pour la résilience et la durabilité-communiqué de presse;rapport des services du FMI; déclaration de l’administrateur pour la République islamique de Mauritanie
International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.
L’année 2024 devrait être marquée par un ralentissement de l’activité économique de la Mauritanie, dont le taux de croissance est estimé à 4,6 % (contre 6,5 % en 2023), en raison de résultats poussifs de son secteur extractif. L’inflation est maîtrisée et le déficit du compte des transactions courantes se résorbe. Des risques considérables pèsent sur les perspectives économiques, notamment une escalade des tensions géopolitiques dans la région et des chocs météorologiques. De plus, le développement économique du pays est entravé par des difficultés liées aux infrastructures, à la gouvernance, à la vulnérabilité aux chocs économiques et à une diversification économique limitée.
Keywords:
Recommandation politique de l'article IV; Programmes de transferts monétaires; Analyse de viabilité de la dette; Afrique de l'Est; Mondial; Plan d'action du gouvernement; Trésorerie du gouvernement; Marché des titres d'État; Moyen-Orient; Afrique du Nord.
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Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Staff Report for the 2024 Article IV Consultation, Third Review Under the Arrangements Under the Extended Credit Facility and Extended Fund Facility, Request for Modification of Quantitative Performance Criteria, and Second Review Under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility Arrangement-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.
This paper presents Islamic Republic of Mauritania’s 2024 Article IV Consultation, Third Review under the Arrangement’s under the Extended Credit Facility and Extended Fund Facility, Request for Modification of Quantitative Performance Criteria, and Second Review under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) Arrangement. The Mauritanian economy has remained resilient, with economic growth projected to slow to 4.6 percent in 2024. Growth is expected to remain favorable in the medium term. Enhancing revenue mobilization, strengthening banking supervision, and sustaining the implementation of the national governance action plan would support private sector-led inclusive growth. Program performance has been strong. Mauritania’s reform drive and sound macroeconomic management have helped strengthen debt sustainability and resilience to shocks, while creating policy space for pressing infrastructure and social spending. Continued implementation of the ambitious climate change adaptation and mitigation reform measures, supported by the RSF, will help address Mauritania’s medium- and long-term term challenges and catalyze additional financing.
Keywords:
government securities market; government action plan; cash transfer programs; government cashflow; article IV policy recommendation; Debt sustainability analysis; Global; Middle East; North Africa; East Africa
Cover IMF Working Papers
Country Stress Events: Does Governance Matter?
Ms. Anna Kochanova
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Carlos Caceres
This paper analyzes the linkages between governance quality and country stress events. It focuses on two types of events: fiscal and political stress events, for which two innovative stress indicators are introduced. The results suggest that weaker governance quality is associated with a higher incidence of both fiscal and political stress events. In particular, internal accountability, which measures the responsiveness of governments to improving the quality of the bureaucracy, public service provision, and respect for the institutional framework in place, is positively associated with fiscal stress events. However, external accountability, which captures government accountability before the public in general, through elections and the democratic process, seems to be more important for political stress events. These results hold when using balanced country samples where region, oil-exporter status, income level, and time are taken into account.
Keywords:
WP; governance measure; stress event; governance quality; governance indicator; governance effectiveness
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Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes: Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework
Mr. Marc G Quintyn
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Sophia Gollwitzer
This paper tests the theoretical framework developed by North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) on the transition from closed to open access societies. They posit that societies need to go through three doorsteps: (i) the establishment of rule of law among elites; (ii) the adoption of perpetually existing organizations; and (iii) the political control of the military. We identify indicators reflecting these doorsteps and graphically test the correlation between them and a set of political and economic variables. Finally, through Identification through Heteroskedasticity we test these relationships econometrically. The paper broadly confirms the logic behind the doorsteps as necessary steps in the transition to open access societies. The doorsteps influence economic and political processes, as well as each other, with varying intensity. We also identify income inequality as a potentially important force leading to social change.
Keywords:
WP; open access order; government expenditure; political system; Gini coefficient; NWW transition framework; institutions; economic performance; political performance; transition; income inequality; open access society; Income inequality; Personal income; Corruption; Europe; Asia and Pacific
Cover Policy Papers
Framework Administered Account for Selected Fund Activities—West Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center (AFRITAC West) Subaccount
International Monetary Fund
In March 2009, the Fund established a new Framework Administered Account to administer external financial resources for selected Fund activities (the “SFA Instrument”). The financing of activities under the terms of the SFA Instrument is implemented through the establishment and operation of a subaccount within the SFA. The subaccount for the West Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center (AFRITAC West) would be the fourth one under the SFA. This paper requests Executive Board approval to establish the AFRITAC West subaccount under the terms of the SFA Instrument.
Keywords:
PP; AFRITAC West; Subaccount; Occident; contributor; terms and conditions of the Subaccount; resources of the Subaccount; d. contributor; West Africa region; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); West Africa
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Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism - Observations from the Work Program and Implications Going Forward
International Monetary Fund
This paper provides a summary of the IMF and the World Bank work programs on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism following the Fund and Bank Boards' decisions in March 2004 to endorse the revised FATF standard (2003 version) and methodology for the purposes of preparing ROSCs and to expand the areas of Bank/Fund responsibility to cover the revised FATF standard comprehensively. It draws lessons on what has worked well and the challenges and discusses the work program going forward.
Keywords:
PP; CFT regime; work program; CFT assessment; CFT measure; CFT system; assessment process; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Terrorism financing; Development policy; Remittances; Money laundering; Global