Senegal: Recent Economic Developments
August 20, 2000
Summary
Public consumption has declined from 12 percent of GDP in 1996 to 10.8 percent in 1999 owing to fiscal consolidation: wage increases are moderate, and other current expenditures have grown slowly. Conversely, private consumption has increased from 75.2 percent of GDP in 1996 to 76.9 percent in 1998, and is estimated to have reached 76.6 percent in 1999. Public investment has increased from 6.4 percent of GDP in 1996 to 7.2 percent of GDP in 1998 and is estimated to have reached 8.2 percent of GDP in 1999, whereas private investment has experienced a downward slide.
Subject: Banking, Capital adequacy requirements, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Imports, International trade, National accounts, Tariffs, Taxes, Transportation
Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Capital adequacy requirements, CFA franc, Commercial banks, composition of GDP, CR, enterprise, Europe, Global, groundnut production, Imports, ISCR, Senegal, Senegal's tertiary sector, service sector, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariffs, tertiary sector, Transportation, West Africa
Pages:
126
Volume:
2000
DOI:
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Issue:
091
Series:
Country Report No. 2000/091
Stock No:
1SENEA0012000
ISBN:
9781451833850
ISSN:
1934-7685






