IMF Staff Country Reports

Senegal: Background Papers and Statistical Appendix

July 24, 1995

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Senegal: Background Papers and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This Background Paper and Statistical Appendix examines the factors that may have accounted for Senegal’s growth, savings, and investment performance, focusing in particular on the response to adjustment policies since the mid-1980s. It provides an overview of the long-term economic performance in Senegal. The paper describes the initial conditions that led to an economic crisis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and discusses the main obstacles to higher sustained growth. The paper also briefly examines the adjustment strategy implemented since the mid-1980s.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, Economic sectors, Exports, International trade, Labor, Public enterprises, Terms of trade

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, Balance of payments, CR, Europe, Exchange rate, Exports, GDP, Growth prospect, Interest rate, ISCR, Price, Private sector, Public enterprise, Public enterprise sector, Public enterprises, Resource gap, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Terms of trade

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    146

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1995/071

  • Stock No:

    1SENEA0011995

  • ISBN:

    9781451833829

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

Notes

This background report and statistical appendix on Senegal was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with this member country. In releasing this document for public use, confidential material may have been removed at the request of the member.