## Mali: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 31, 2018_

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**Canonical URL:** [Mali: Selected Issues](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2018/05/31/mali-selected-issues-45922)

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 31, 2018
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484359068.002

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### Core findings on the security crisis and economic impact
- The paper analyzes the impact of the security crisis in Mali.
- The 2012 crisis has significant economic, social, and humanitarian impact, especially in the northern regions.
- The increase in security spending weighs on the budget and reduces space for priority spending.
- Persistent insecurity hinders investment and growth.
- The security crisis has slowed progress toward reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

### Impact on education and human development
- The crisis resulted in the interruption and/ or disruption of learning activities in the northern part of the country, "dangerously compromising the efforts of the Government of Mali and its partners to achieve Education For All."

### Fiscal and public investment implications
- Increased security spending reduces fiscal space for priority spending and public investment.
- Persistent insecurity deters investment, limiting growth prospects.

### Subject areas covered
- Banking
- Corporate income tax
- Credit
- Expenditure
- Money
- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)
- Public investment spending
- Revenue administration
- Taxes

### Keywords highlighted
- Africa
- bank
- Corporate income tax
- CR
- Credit
- government of Mali
- investment
- investment expenditure
- ISCR
- Mali
- poverty reduction strategy paper
- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)
- Public investment spending
- security crisis
- security spending
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- tax
- tax capacity
- West Africa

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2018/05/31/mali-selected-issues-45922_