Departmental Papers

Senegal: Achieving High and Inclusive Growth While Preserving Fiscal Sustainability

By Alexei P Kireyev, Gaston K Mpatswe

October 22, 2013

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Alexei P Kireyev, and Gaston K Mpatswe. Senegal: Achieving High and Inclusive Growth While Preserving Fiscal Sustainability, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

Senegal’s growth has been sluggish in recent years with implications for poverty reduction. Average growth was relatively strong in 1995–2005 and accompanied by a large drop in poverty incidence. Due partly to a series of exogenous shocks, growth decreased to an average of 3.3 percent in 2006–11. As a result, per capita income increased only modestly and poverty incidence barely decreased during this period and remains high.

Subject: Economic growth, Inclusive growth, Income inequality, National accounts, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Production, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Africa, Deficit, DP, DPPP, GDP, Government spending policy, Growth performance, Growth performances vis-à-vis comparator, Growth rate accounting, Inclusive growth, Income inequality, Medium-Term growth outlook, Monetary union, Per capita income, Poverty incidence, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Public policies, Senegal, Senegal's growth, Sub-Saharan Africa, Total factor productivity, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    38

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Departmental Paper No 2013/007

  • Stock No:

    SAHIGEA

  • ISBN:

    9781484379660

  • ISSN:

    2616-5333