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  "title": "Benin: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility",
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      "content": "- Benin experienced a decade of good economic performance.\n- Persistent challenge: poverty reduction remains a concern."
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      "content": "- Immediate measures emphasized to:\n  - Stabilize the fiscal situation.\n  - Restore fiscal sustainability.\n  - Obtain structural reforms to support macroeconomic stability and growth."
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      "content": "- Primary aim: Make progress in implementing the reform agenda of the cotton sector.\n- Structural reforms are linked to broader objectives of fiscal stabilization and poverty reduction."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Agricultural commodities, Civil service reform, Commodities, Expenditure, Labor, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy\n- Keywords: Agricultural commodities, amount, authorities' strategy, Civil service reform, cotton sector, CR, exportled development strategy, government, government reform, ISCR, Nigeria, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF loan, West Africa\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr05288 — IMF staff report\n  - cr05288 — IMF staff report (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr05288 — IMF staff report (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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