IMF Staff Country Reports

Cameroon: First Review of the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)

June 16, 2006

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International Monetary Fund. "Cameroon: First Review of the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 231 (2006), accessed 12/24/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451808179.002

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Summary

Macroeconomic performance has been satisfactory, and program implementation under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement has also been good. The medium-term projections have been updated in anticipation of relief under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). Despite recent steps, governance remains weak. The slowdown in non-oil real growth is a cause for concern and calls for determined actions by the government. Relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and MDRI would reduce Cameroon’s debt to sustainable levels.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Capital spending, Debt relief, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Taxes

Keywords: authorities' intention, Capital spending, CR, Debt relief, fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, gas and mining taxes, Global, government, ISCR, Oil, Poverty reduction strategy, poverty-reducing expenditure, PRGF, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, public enterprises member, Sub-Saharan Africa