IMF Staff Country Reports

The Gambia: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Second Annual Progress Report

November 7, 2006

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The Gambia: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Second Annual Progress Report, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

The economic performance has been positive as tight macroeconomic policies prevailed, helped by a remarkable revenue mobilization effort. None of the key indicator targets were met. Fiscal performance improved, but there was an increase in the overall fiscal deficit. Monetary policy was also less expansionary. Efforts were sustained to strengthen the justice delivery system. The long-term goal is to eradicate poverty by significantly increasing the national income, through stable economic growth, and reducing income and non-income inequalities through specific poverty-reduction priority interventions.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Education, Health, HIV and AIDS, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Africa, Basic education, Broad money, Budget planning and preparation, Capital expenditure, CR, Debt service, Financial support, Gambia basic education certification examination, Gambia civil aviation authority, Gambia groundnut council, Gambia port authority, Gambia woman, HIV and AIDS, Housing finance Association, Inflation rate, ISCR, Poverty rate, Poverty reduction strategy paper, Private sector, Real GDP, Road transport authority, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    53

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2006/396

  • Stock No:

    1GMBEA2006007

  • ISBN:

    9781451815528

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685