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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU): Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
This Selected Issues paper reviews West African Economic and Monetary Union’s (WAEMU) regional macroeconomic surveillance framework to control all sources of debt accumulation and ensure debt sustainability. WAEMU’s regional surveillance framework aims at ensuring the sustainability of national fiscal policies and their consistency with the common monetary policy. While fiscal deficits have been the main driver of public debt across WAEMU member countries, the size of residual factors has varied greatly among these countries. The WAEMU Macroeconomic Surveillance Framework would benefit from adjustments to more effectively set the region’s public debt on a sustainable path. In addition, beyond adhering to the WAEMU fiscal deficit rule, member countries must curb below-the-budget-line operations. This would require improved monitoring of fiscal risks and the building of adequate budget provisions to address such risks before they materialize. Improved Treasury practices would also help eliminate the recourse to pre-financing arrangements and tighten control over expenditure. Public dissemination of the WAEMU progress report and strengthened peer-to-peer learning among member countries could improve the momentum for reforms.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; WAEMU country; WAEMU; GDP; trade flow; WAEMU trade integration; member country; convergence criterion; Government debt management; Income inequality; Global; West Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal
Mr. Alexei P Kireyev
The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has slowed in recent years. Although available indicators sometimes give conflicting signals on distributional shifts, people in the middle of the income distribution have received the most benefit, mainly in urban areas. Further progress in poverty reduction and inclusiveness would require sustained high growth and exploration of growth opportunities in the sectors with high earning potential for the poor. Better-targeted social policies and more attention to the regional distribution of spending would also help reduce poverty and improve inclusiveness.
Keywords:
WP; Senegal; decile; poverty line; growth; inclusiveness; low-income countries; poverty reduction; growth incidence curve; household survey; decile ratio; poverty incidence; bottom decile; Senegal's poverty; Income; Income inequality; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Côte d'Ivoire : Document de stratégie pour la réduction de la pauvreté et note consultative conjointe des services du FMI et de la Banque mondiale: Côte d'Ivoire : Document de stratégie pour la réduction de la pauvreté et note consultative conjointe des services du FMI et de la Banque mondiale
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Depuis plusieurs années, le FMI publie un nombre croissant de rapports et autres documents couvrant l'évolution et les tendances économiques et financières dans les pays membres. Chaque rapport, rédigé par une équipe des services du FMI à la suite d'entretiens avec des représentants des autorités, est publié avec l'accord du pays concerné.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; governance; NDP state; customs administration reform; country
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Côte d’Ivoire: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
The NDP aims at transforming Côte d’Ivoire into an emerging market and halving the poverty rate. The framework for poverty reduction can be improved by developing a program of targeted interventions to support growth in key strategic sectors, public investment management, maintaining fiscal and debt sustainability and implementation of energy sector reforms. The fiscal strategy focuses on scaling up public investment and sustainability. The public sector investment program and the macroeconomic projections of the PND are a good strategy. Risks to successful implementation are exogenous shocks, resistance to structural reforms, and sociopolitical instability in the country.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; governance; NDP state; customs administration reform; country; government's commitment; authorities' ambition; NDP program; NDP growth target; government's capacity; government's strategy; Poverty reduction strategy; Agricultural sector; Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Public investment spending; Global
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Côte d’Ivoire: Note consultative conjointe sur le rapport d’avancement du document de stratégie de réduction de la pauvreté
International Monetary Fund
En Janvier 2009, le gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire a publié son premier document complet de stratégie de réduction de la pauvreté (DSRP), s’étendant sur la période allant de 2009 à 2015. Le DSRP a été discuté par les Conseils d’Administration de l’IDA et du FMI respectivement les 27 et 31 Mars 2009. Il est axé autour de 4 conclusions :(i) rétablissement et raffermissement des fondements de la République; (ii) transformation de la Côte d’Ivoire en un pays émergent; (iii) amélioration du bien-être pour tous; (iv) transformation de la Côte d’Ivoire en un acteur dynamique de la scène régionale et mondiale. En février 2011, le gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire a publié un Rapport d’Avancement du DSRP, sur la période s’échelonnant de 2009 à 2011. Aucun rapport annuel d’avancement n’a été élaboré en 2010 ou 2011.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; PRSP implementation; crisis; government of Côte d'Ivoire; authorities' effort
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Côte d’Ivoire: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Progress Report of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund
This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the progress report (PR) of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Côte d’Ivoire. The PR notes the difficulty of implementing the PRSP in a period of continued political crisis and civil conflict. It emphasizes that economic performance was affected by various domestic shocks. The PR highlights efforts to strengthen public financial management (PFM) and reform the cocoa sector. It also notes several actions undertaken to build and consolidate peace and strengthen social cohesion in the country.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; PRSP implementation; crisis; government of Côte d'Ivoire; authorities' effort; launch of emergency; full Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper; efforts of the authorities; election crisis; Infrastructure; Global
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Côte d’Ivoire: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund
This paper discusses key findings of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Côte d’Ivoire. The paper reveals that poverty is more acute in rural areas than in urban areas of Côte d’Ivoire. The increase of poverty is greater in the city of Abidjan, with about a 50 percent increase, compared with other towns where the rate of increase is slightly below 20 percent. As at the national level, poverty increased considerably at the level of development poles (regions) and differed from one pole to the other.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; private sector; poverty rate; civil society; financial support; labor market; primary sector; public finance; management system; structural adjustment; Global; West Africa; Africa
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Côte d’Ivoire: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund
This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Côte d’Ivoire, and discusses poverty trends, the PRSP’s strategic pillars, and key outcomes sought, including a sound macroeconomic framework, and monitoring and evaluation arrangements. IMF staff supports the authorities’ plans to link the strategic priorities of the PRSP with budgetary allocations and processes. The IMF staff also agrees with the assessment of poverty made in the PRSP, and urges an immediate and focused effort to reverse the rising trend in poverty.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; PRSP estimate; PRSP implementation; PRSP target; PRSP project; PRSP secretariat; Poverty reduction strategy; Agricultural commodities; Global
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Liberia: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund
This paper discusses implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Liberia. Liberia’s PRS articulates the government’s overall vision and major strategies for moving toward rapid, inclusive, and sustainable growth and development during the period 2008–11. This paper provides the context for the PRS by describing the conflict and economic collapse, the transition beyond conflict, and the initial progress achieved during the past two years. It stresses that Liberia must create much greater economic and political opportunities for all its citizens and ensure that growth and development are widely shared.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; private sector; job creation; value chain; natural resource; economic growth; PRS period; business plan; management system; financial support; Securities; West Africa; Global
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Mali: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Implementation Report
International Monetary Fund
This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Implementation Report 2003–04 for Mali. Progress has been made in the social sectors, even if some inadequacies remain. Budget allocations to the education and health sectors have improved, with budget resources allotted to essential social services trending markedly favorably over the period 2001–04. The program to restructure and privatize public enterprises is well advanced. Railroads have been private since 2003, and a privatization support unit was established for the Malian Telecommunications Company SOTELMA.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; private sector; public finance; job creation; government management program; human resources; central government; primary sector; Budget planning and preparation; Africa; Global