Burkina Faso: Second and Third Reviews Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria and Extension of Commitment Period

March 11, 2005

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Burkina Faso: Second and Third Reviews Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria and Extension of Commitment Period, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

Burkina Faso’s Second and Third Reviews Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria are examined. Fiscal policy for 2005 aims at preserving social sector outlays while ensuring that the external debt burden falls. Structural reforms are the key to achieving higher rates of economic growth and sustained poverty reduction, and the authorities place particular emphasis on reforms in the public utilities.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, Expenditure, Exports, External debt, Oil prices, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Prices

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, CNDP approval, Cotton enterprise, CR, Executive Board discussion, Government, ISCR, Oil prices, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, Waiver, West Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

71
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/095
Stock No:

1BFAEA2005001
ISBN:

9781451803808
ISSN:

1934-7685

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