IMF Staff Country Reports

Burkina Faso: Selected Issues

December 22, 2016

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Burkina Faso: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed November 12, 2024

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This Selected Issues paper examines the impact of scaled-up public investment in Burkina Faso. The results suggest that “big-push” investment efforts, while designed to accelerate growth, are likely to run up against significant absorption-capacity constraints. These constraints will diminish the efficiency of investment spending and result in lower public capital accumulation and productivity growth than under a more measured approach. The empirical evidence from the experience of many countries also suggests that the results of aggressive scaling-up initiatives are mixed.

Subject: Civil service, Expenditure, Labor, Public employment, Public investment spending, Wage adjustments, Wages

Keywords: Bill in Burkina Faso, Civil service, CR, GDP ratio, Government, Investment, Investment efficiency, Investment project, Investment scaling-up, ISCR, Ivoirian authorities, Pay, Public employment, Public investment spending, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sustainability risk, Wage adjustments, Wage bill, Wages, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    23

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2016/391

  • Stock No:

    1BFAEA2016003

  • ISBN:

    9781475562590

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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