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  "title": "Benin: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, January 5, 2018",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper analyzes the growth, structural transformation, and export diversification in Benin. Although Benin has delivered high economic growth over recent years, it faces critical challenges regarding export diversification and domestic production.",
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      "content": "- This Selected Issues paper analyzes the growth, structural transformation, and export diversification in Benin.\n- Although Benin has delivered high economic growth over recent years, it faces critical challenges regarding export diversification and domestic production.\n- Benin’s competitiveness is impaired by structural bottlenecks.\n- Low and stagnant productivity in the agriculture sector is perhaps a primary cause of the limited poverty reduction in rural areas."
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      "heading": "Challenges identified",
      "content": "- Export diversification is limited.\n- Domestic production constraints hinder expansion into new lines of economic activity.\n- Structural bottlenecks reduce overall competitiveness.\n- Electricity shortages and weaknesses in the business climate constrain private sector development.\n- Low and stagnant agricultural productivity contributes to constrained rural poverty reduction.\n- Human capital deficiencies limit potential gains from structural transformation."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations and areas for reform",
      "content": "- Policies to promote structural transformation and diversification should focus on addressing weaknesses that hinder entry into new lines of economic activity.\n- Further progress on strengthening the business climate could provide significant benefits.\n- Addressing electricity shortages is recommended to support competitiveness and diversification.\n- Increasing human capital is recommended to enable structural transformation and productivity gains.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Country Report\n  - Country Report (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Country Report (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: January 5, 2018",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484336540.002",
    "This Selected Issues paper analyzes the growth, structural transformation, and export diversification in Benin.",
    "Although Benin has delivered high economic growth over recent years, it faces critical challenges regarding export diversification and domestic production.",
    "Benin’s competitiveness is impaired by structural bottlenecks.",
    "Low and stagnant productivity in the agriculture sector is perhaps a primary cause of the limited poverty reduction in rural areas.",
    "Domestic production constraints hinder expansion into new lines of economic activity.",
    "Structural bottlenecks reduce overall competitiveness.",
    "Electricity shortages and weaknesses in the business climate constrain private sector development.",
    "Low and stagnant agricultural productivity contributes to constrained rural poverty reduction.",
    "Human capital deficiencies limit potential gains from structural transformation.",
    "Policies to promote structural transformation and diversification should focus on addressing weaknesses that hinder entry into new lines of economic activity.",
    "Further progress on strengthening the business climate could provide significant benefits.",
    "Addressing electricity shortages is recommended to support competitiveness and diversification.",
    "Increasing human capital is recommended to enable structural transformation and productivity gains.",
    "**Country Report**"
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