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The Global Financial Crisis: Impact on WAEMU Member Countries and Policy Options
Author: Mr. Johannes Mueller, Irene Yackovlev, and Hans Weisfeld
Series:
IMF Staff Position Notes
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2009: Issue 016
Language:
English
Publication Date:
18 Mar 2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455229017.004
ISBN:
9781455229017
ISSN:
2617-6742
Pages:
16
Keywords:
SPN; WAEMU; price; WAEMU country; financing; financial market; WAEMU reserve; WAEMU region; WAEMU bank; growth potential; food price inflation; bank restructuring strategy; bank financing; WAEMU member; bank liquidity; stance of WAEMU country; CFA franc; trade financing development; Fiscal stimulus; Government debt management; Liquidity; Current account deficits; Global; exchange rate development; bank balance balance sheet; commodity export price
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Most WAEMU countries are likely to see economic growth deteriorate over the next two years as a result of the global economic crisis, and some WAEMU countries will be more severely affected by the crisis than others. This could have a detrimental effect on efforts to reduce poverty. Deteriorating remittances and commodity export prices are projected to negatively affect the WAEMU countries’ external current account deficit and reserves, although the impact should be cushioned by positive terms-of-trade shocks, such as declining import prices for food and fuel products. These developments should also help lower inflation pressures, bringing WAEMU inflation closer to its historical level of about 2 percent by 2010.
Cover IMF Staff Position Notes
IMF Staff Position Notes
ISSN:
2617-6742
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund