## Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Selected Issues Paper

_IMF Staff Country Reports, August 27, 2012_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 27, 2012
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475506693.002

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### Summary of main findings
- Despite a relatively high GDP growth rate over the past decade (2000–10), economic growth in Mauritania has not been able to make a significant dent in poverty.
- Rapid and sustained poverty reduction requires inclusive growth that allows people to contribute to and benefit from expanding economic activity.
- Mauritania needs to make greater progress toward inclusive growth by enhancing the distributional impact of public spending and by improving the quality of pro-poor spending.
- The Executive Board recommends effective monetary policies to meet the challenges.

### Key themes and analysis
- Inclusive growth: Emphasis on ensuring that growth permits broad-based participation and benefit-sharing across the population.
- Public spending: Need to enhance the distributional impact and improve the quality of pro-poor spending to translate growth into poverty reduction.
- Monetary policy: Executive Board recommendation for effective monetary policies to address challenges associated with translating growth into poverty alleviation.

### Subject areas and keywords (as listed)
- Bank credit, Banking, Credit, Economic growth, Exports, Inclusive growth, International trade, Money, Poverty
- Keywords: bank, Bank credit, bank lending channel, CR, Credit, East Africa, Europe, Exports, funding constraint, Global, Inclusive growth, ISCR, Mauritania, Middle East, North Africa, poverty incidence, poverty perception, public spending, Sub-Saharan Africa, subsidy reform

*International Monetary Fund. "Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Selected Issues Paper", August 27, 2012.*

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