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  "title": "Mali: 2008 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Staff Supplements; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Mali",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 14, 2008",
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  "summary": "Mali’s 2008 Article IV Consultation and request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility are discussed. Mali’s economy has doubled in size since the democratic transition of the early 1990s.",
  "publishDate": "2008-08-14",
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      "heading": "Key findings and country context",
      "content": "- Mali’s economy has doubled in size since the democratic transition of the early 1990s.\n- Sound macroeconomic management has produced growth averaging almost 5 percent.\n- The tax ratio rose from less than 10 percent of GDP to about 16 percent.\n- Agriculture, the mainstay of the economy, has been buffeted by recurrent droughts, floods, locust infestation, and diseases."
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      "content": "- Publication date: August 14, 2008\n- Pages: 94\n- Volume: 2008\n- Issue: 283\n- Series: Country Report No. 2008/283\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826500.002\n- Stock No: 1MLIEA2008004\n- ISBN: 9781451826500\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Citation format provided: Chicago — International Monetary Fund. \"Mali: 2008 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Staff Supplements; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Mali\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2008, 283 (2008), accessed 9/22/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826500.002"
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      "heading": "Thematic subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, External debt, Fiscal stance, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Public debt\n- Keywords: Agricultural commodities, authorities' hope, authority, CR, financing gap, Global, ISCR, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, PRGF-supported program, price, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa\n\nInternational Monetary Fund — Mali: 2008 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Staff Supplements; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Mali (August 14, 2008).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Cr08283\n  - Cr08283 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/mali-2008-article-iv-consultation-and-request-for-a-three-year-arrangement-under-the-poverty-22279"
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    "Published: August 14, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826500.002",
    "Mali’s economy has doubled in size since the democratic transition of the early 1990s.",
    "Sound macroeconomic management has produced growth averaging almost 5 percent.",
    "The tax ratio rose from less than 10 percent of GDP to about 16 percent.",
    "Agriculture, the mainstay of the economy, has been buffeted by recurrent droughts, floods, locust infestation, and diseases.",
    "Publication date: August 14, 2008",
    "Pages: 94",
    "Volume: 2008",
    "Issue: 283",
    "Series: Country Report No. 2008/283",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826500.002",
    "Stock No: 1MLIEA2008004",
    "ISBN: 9781451826500",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "Citation format provided: Chicago — International Monetary Fund. \"Mali: 2008 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Staff Supplements; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Mali\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2008, 283 (2008), accessed 9/22/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826500.002",
    "Subjects: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, External debt, Fiscal stance, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, Public debt",
    "Keywords: Agricultural commodities, authorities' hope, authority, CR, financing gap, Global, ISCR, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, PRGF-supported program, price, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa",
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