Benin: Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries—Completion Point Document
April 4, 2003
Summary
This paper reviews Benin’s progress and proposes IMF Executive Board approval of the Completion Point Under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Framework. The IMF staff and IDA consider that Benin has met the conditions for reaching the completion point under the enhanced HIPC Initiative, as specified in the decision point document. Benin’s macroeconomic program is on track, as evidenced by satisfactory performance under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement, and the government has made considerable progress in implementing its structural adjustment program, albeit with delays.
Subject: Asset and liability management, Debt relief, Debt service, Education, Expenditure, Exports, External debt, International trade
Keywords: Beninese authorities, CR, Debt relief, Debt service, exchange rate, Exports, GDP deflator, ginning plant, ISCR, long-term debt, public expenditure, reform program, U.S. dollar, West Africa
Pages:
47
Volume:
2003
DOI:
Issue:
089
Series:
Country Report No. 2003/089
Stock No:
1BENEA0022003
ISBN:
9781451803396
ISSN:
1934-7685






