## Benin: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility

_IMF Staff Country Reports, August 12, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 12, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803464.002

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### Overview
- Publication date: August 12, 2005
- Core message: The staff report highlights Benin’s economic developments and progress in structural reforms; despite a decade of good economic performance, poverty reduction remains a concern.
- Main focus of policy discussions: immediate measures to stabilize and restore the fiscal situation and to obtain structural reforms.

### Key economic findings
- Benin experienced a decade of good economic performance.
- Persistent challenge: poverty reduction remains a concern.

### Policy discussions and recommendations
- Immediate measures emphasized to:
  - Stabilize the fiscal situation.
  - Restore fiscal sustainability.
  - Obtain structural reforms to support macroeconomic stability and growth.

### Structural reform program
- Primary aim: Make progress in implementing the reform agenda of the cotton sector.
- Structural reforms are linked to broader objectives of fiscal stabilization and poverty reduction.

### Subjects and keywords (as provided)
- Subjects: Agricultural commodities, Civil service reform, Commodities, Expenditure, Labor, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy
- 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

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