The Spending Challenge for Reaching the SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Learned from Benin and Rwanda

December 6, 2019

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Delphine Prady, and Mouhamadou Sy. The Spending Challenge for Reaching the SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Learned from Benin and Rwanda, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper documents the additional spending that is required for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to achieve meaningful progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average additional spending across SSA is significant, at 19 percent of GDP in 2030; ii) countries must prioritize their development objectives according to their capacity to deliver satisfactory outcomes, iii) financing strategies should articulate multiple sources given the scale of additional spending, and iv) strong national ownership of SDGs is key and should be reflected in long-term development plans and medium-term policy commitments.

Subject: Commodities, Development, Education, Electricity, Health, Population and demographics, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Keywords: Benin, Electricity, GDP, Health SSA average, Rwanda, Spending, Spending estimate, SSA countries signal, SSA government, SSA LIDCs, SSA median, SSA peer, SSA population, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), WP

Publication Details

Pages:

26
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2019/270
Stock No:

WPIEA2019270
ISBN:

9781513519913
ISSN:

1018-5941

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