Guinea: Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance and Modification of Performance Criterion, and Financing Assurances Review

July 3, 2013

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Guinea: Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance and Modification of Performance Criterion, and Financing Assurances Review, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper discusses Guinea’s Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility, Requests for Modifications of Performance Criteria and Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, and Financing Assurances. Growth is projected at 4.5 percent for 2013, slightly lower than envisaged because of lower growth in the mining sector. The programs inflation target has been revised upward slightly, mainly reflecting the higher than programmed outcome at end-2012, together with some modest impact from an agreement on increases in civil service wages. Key risks include continued political unrest in the run-up to elections, which could affect growth, investment, and reform momentum, and a rebound in inflation if the private sector follows the increase in civil service wages.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Debt relief, Economic sectors, External debt, Labor, Mining sector, Public financial management (PFM), Public sector wages

Keywords: Africa, Authorities' fiscal policy, CR, Debt relief, ECF-supported program, Financing, Fiscal policy, Global, Government, Guinean authorities, ISCR, Macroeconomic performance, Mining sector, Policy reform, Priority sector, Public sector wages, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

97
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2013/192
Stock No:

1GINEA2013003
ISBN:

9781484390375
ISSN:

1934-7685

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