Guinea: First Review of the Arrangement Under the Three-Year Extended Credit Facility, Financing Assurances Review, and Request for Modification and for Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Guinea
July 20, 2018
Summary
The Guinean economy is growing at a faster than anticipated pace on the back of buoyant mining activity. The growth momentum is expected to continue, with real growth at about 6 percent in 2018 and over the medium term. However, risks of instability are heightened by the current electoral cycle.
Subject: Banking, External debt, National accounts, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration
Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, CR, debt, domestically-financed capital expenditures, ECF arrangement, Europe, Global, government, ISCR, Middle East, net government repayment, private sector development, sovereign expenditure, West Africa
Pages:
136
Volume:
2018
DOI:
Issue:
234
Series:
Country Report No. 2018/234
Stock No:
1GINEA2018001
ISBN:
9781484369913
ISSN:
1934-7685




