Togo: First Review under the Extended Credit Facility-Press Release; and Staff Report

Publication Date:

December 15, 2017

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper discusses Togo’s First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement. Program implementation under the ECF-supported program has been good. All quantitative performance criteria and prior actions were met as well as four out of five structural benchmarks. The fiscal consolidation envisaged under the ECF-supported program has begun. The primary deficit improved from an annual average of about 6 percent of GDP in 2013–16 to a surplus of 1.4 percent of GDP in the first half of 2017, due primarily to expenditure rationalization and the halting of non-orthodox financing of public investment. The IMF staff supports the completion of the first ECF review as most quantitative targets, prior actions, and structural benchmarks have been met.

Series:

Country Report No. 2017/379

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

December 15, 2017

ISBN/ISSN:

9781484333075/1934-7685

Stock No:

1TGOEA2017003

Pages:

71

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