IMF Staff Country Reports

Mali: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

April 21, 1999

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International Monetary Fund. "Mali: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 1999, 020 (1999), accessed 12/7/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826227.002

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix briefly surveys the progress achieved by Mali in the area of economic adjustment in the decade since 1988. This is followed by a discussion of the principal areas where the Malian government is considering the implementation of new reforms in the period ahead. The paper analyzes the financial sector in Mali. It highlights that in the late 1980s, the financial sector, in particular the banking system, faced a major liquidity and solvency crisis characterized by a high level of nonperforming loans.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Money, Public enterprises, Public sector, Revenue administration

Keywords: capital base, CFA franc, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, enterprise, equity position, financial support, government, government involvement, government of Mali, government's portfolio, ISCR, Malian government of the need, microfinance institution, pricing system, Public enterprises, Public sector, state intervention, State involvement, West Africa