IMF Staff Country Reports

Mali: First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria

April 6, 2005

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Mali: First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper focuses on Mali’s First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance Performance Criteria. Program implementation in 2004 was mixed. The authorities stuck to their fiscal program, meeting all targets and indicators through end-September, despite some revenue and financing shortfalls. However, progress on structural reforms, particularly privatization, has been disappointing. The authorities request waivers for three structural performance criteria on the basis of corrective actions concerning privatization policies in the cotton, telecommunications, and banking sectors.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Agricultural prices, Commodities, Economic sectors, Inflation, Prices, Privatization, Producer prices

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, Agricultural prices, Consumer price inflation, CR, Fuel excise, Global, Inflation, ISCR, PRGF arrangement, Privatization, Producer prices, Pump price, Staff report estimate, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    73

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/129

  • Stock No:

    1MLIEA2005001

  • ISBN:

    9781451826401

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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Also available online in French.