Lesotho: Fourth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement and Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria

Publication Date:

June 19, 2003

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper assesses Lesotho’s Fourth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement and Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria. Lesotho’s economic program was broadly on track through December 2002, but large fiscal slippages emerged by end-March 2003. IMF staff welcomes the government’s strong commitment to its economic program and recommends completion of the fourth review. It supports a waiver for the nonobserved quantitative performance criterion because of the actions taken by the government to reduce nonessential spending in 2002/03 and because of its commitment to implement sustainable fiscal policies in the medium term.

Series:

Country Report No. 2003/169

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

June 19, 2003

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451823691/1934-7685

Stock No:

1LSOEA0012003

Pages:

62

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