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  "title": "Burundi: Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement",
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  "summary": "Burundi’s extreme poverty, post-conflict environment, and persistent fragility created considerable risks to program implementation, calling for extensive flexibility in engagement.",
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      "heading": "Executive findings",
      "content": "- Burundi’s extreme poverty, post-conflict environment, and persistent fragility created considerable risks to program implementation, calling for extensive flexibility in engagement.  \n- The program succeeded in establishing some of the key foundations of macroeconomic stability, mobilizing donor resources, and promoting poverty reduction.  \n- Ensuring public debt sustainability should remain a key program objective.  \n- Risks to the new program are likely to remain high but manageable."
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      "content": "- A successor program should strike the right balance between reforms narrowly aimed at improving the conduct of macroeconomic policies and other macro-critical reforms.  \n- Maintain program flexibility to accommodate the high risks posed by extreme poverty, a post-conflict environment, and persistent fragility.  \n- Prioritize public debt sustainability as a core objective alongside donor mobilization and poverty-reduction measures."
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      "content": "- Program implementation faced considerable risks stemming from Burundi’s social and economic conditions, necessitating extensive flexibility in IMF engagement.  \n- Key achievements included foundations for macroeconomic stability, heightened donor engagement, and progress on poverty reduction.  \n- Continued attention to macro-critical structural reforms is necessary to support durable stabilization and development outcomes.\n\nInternational 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.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr11269\n  - cr11269 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr11269 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- cr11269f\n  - cr11269f (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr11269f (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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