IMF Staff Country Reports

Central African Republic: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

June 23, 2004

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International Monetary Fund. "Central African Republic: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 167 (2004), accessed 12/18/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451806618.002

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes economic developments over the past decade in the Central African Republic (CAR). It examines the regional integration efforts of the CAR in the context of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). The paper presents an overview of the CEMAC customs union reform, and investigates the status of the implementation of the CEMAC trade reform in the CAR. The paper also evaluates the impact of the regional trade reform on the CAR’s trade performance, based on trade developments in the CAR during 1994–2002.

Subject: Commercial banks, Credit, Exports, Financial institutions, Imports, Income and capital gains taxes, International trade, Money, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, C.A.R. authorities, C.A.R. bank, CEMAC, Central Africa, Commercial banks, country, CR, Credit, Crédit mutuel de Centrafrique, diamond export, export company, Exports, government, Imports, Income and capital gains taxes, ISCR, purchasing bureau, West Africa, Western Hemisphere