Republic of Madagascar: Economic Development Document
IMF Staff Country Reports, July 18, 2017
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Bibliographic details
- Published: July 18, 2017
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484310670.002
Strategy overview
- Describes the strategy adopted by the government of Madagascar to reverse the trend of modest economic performance, deteriorating social conditions, and persistent poverty observed in recent years.
- Strategy addresses the underlying causes of poverty.
- Primary aim of fiscal policy is to increase revenue and rationalize budget expenditure to provide ample margins to finance priority spending, specifically social and infrastructure spending.
Fiscal policy priorities
- Expand the tax base.
- Continue reform of tax and customs administration.
- Eliminate the causes of inefficient public expenditure.
- Provide ample margins to finance priority spending, specifically social and infrastructure spending.
Monetary policy objectives
- Regulate domestic liquidity to normalize trends in economic activities.
- Achieve the inflation targets of less than 10.0 percent.
Subject areas covered
- Corruption
- Education
- Infrastructure
- National accounts
- Population and demographics
- Poverty
- Poverty reduction
Keywords highlighted
- air Madagascar
- asset recovery authority
- CR
- development framework
- economic growth
- economic system
- energy security
- financing requirement
- government securities market
- Infrastructure
- ISCR
- land tenure
- per capita income
- poverty profile
- poverty rate
- Poverty reduction
- private sector
- purchasing power
- Sub-Saharan Africa
International Monetary Fund. Republic of Madagascar: Economic Development Document (IMF Staff Country Reports 2017, No. 2017/225).
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