Burundi: Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement
IMF Staff Country Reports, September 2, 2011
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- Published: September 2, 2011
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463902834.002
Executive findings
- Burundi’s extreme poverty, post-conflict environment, and persistent fragility created considerable risks to program implementation, calling for extensive flexibility in engagement.
- The program succeeded in establishing some of the key foundations of macroeconomic stability, mobilizing donor resources, and promoting poverty reduction.
- Ensuring public debt sustainability should remain a key program objective.
- Risks to the new program are likely to remain high but manageable.
Policy recommendations and program design
- A successor program should strike the right balance between reforms narrowly aimed at improving the conduct of macroeconomic policies and other macro-critical reforms.
- Maintain program flexibility to accommodate the high risks posed by extreme poverty, a post-conflict environment, and persistent fragility.
- Prioritize public debt sustainability as a core objective alongside donor mobilization and poverty-reduction measures.
Context and implementation considerations
- Program implementation faced considerable risks stemming from Burundi’s social and economic conditions, necessitating extensive flexibility in IMF engagement.
- Key achievements included foundations for macroeconomic stability, heightened donor engagement, and progress on poverty reduction.
- Continued attention to macro-critical structural reforms is necessary to support durable stabilization and development outcomes.
International Monetary Fund. "Burundi: Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement", IMF Staff Country Reports 2011, 269 (2011), September 2, 2011, accessed 9/13/2026.
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