Benin: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report
IMF Staff Country Reports, July 18, 2008
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Bibliographic details
- Published: July 18, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803570.002
Scope and timing
- Reviews the Annual Progress Report (APR) on implementation of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) for Benin.
- APR assesses progress during 2006 and the first half of 2007.
- Publication date: July 18, 2008.
Key findings
- Significant progress has been made in strengthening the macroeconomic framework.
- Some improvement observed in social indicators.
- At the current pace, Benin would not be able to reach all the Millennium Development Goal targets by 2015.
Thematic highlights
- Macroeconomic framework
- Identified as significantly strengthened in the APR (no further quantitative macro details provided in the source).
- Social indicators and poverty reduction
- The APR highlights improvements in social indicators, but underscores that progress is insufficient for achieving all MDG targets by 2015.
- PRS implementation period covered
- The APR focuses on developments in 2006 and the first half of 2007.
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