Expenditure Composition and Economic Development in Benin

May 27, 2010

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Marco Pani, and Mohamed El Harrak. Expenditure Composition and Economic Development in Benin, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed May 22, 2025

Summary

This paper analyzes expenditure composition and economic development in Benin. It addresses some specific issues on the basis of a stylized model of the Beninese economy that highlights the tradeoff between expenditure on wages and investment. The model takes into account specific characteristics of the Beninese economy, including the large share of agriculture in employment and GDP, the large number of urban unemployed engaged in precarious informal sector activities, and the strong influence of labor unions in the formal labor market concentrated in the urban areas.

Subject: Civil service, Expenditure, Labor, Labor demand, Labor supply, Public investment spending, Wages

Keywords: BeninExpenditure composition, Bill yield, Civil service, DP, DPPP, Economic development in Benin, Economic development in BeninExpenditure composition, Expected wage, Labor demand, Labor market, Labor supply, Number of worker, Private sector, Public expenditure, Public investment spending, Rate of return, Rural wage, Wage bill, Wage demand, Wage disparity, Wage level, Wages, Workers unemployed

Publication Details

Pages:

28
Volume:

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Series:

Departmental Paper No 2010/005
Stock No:

ECEDBEA
ISBN:

9781455266364
ISSN:

2616-5333

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Also available in French.

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