Guinea: Selected Issues
IMF Staff Country Reports, May 17, 2024
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- Published: May 17, 2024
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400275173.002
Overview and purpose
- Examines the potential medium and long-term effects of the Simandou iron ore project on Guinea’s economy and income distribution.
- Uses two complementary macroeconomic models to simulate macroeconomic and distributional outcomes under alternative scenarios.
Macroeconomic impacts
- If production began in 2025, the level of real gross domestic product would be around 26 percent by 2030 compared to a baseline scenario without the project.
- The project would induce a currency appreciation of around 3 percent in 2025 and 2 percent in 2030.
- The project would lead to an increase in employment.
Distributional and private consumption effects
- The positive impact on private consumption could be limited without active policies.
- The positive impact on inequality could be limited without active policies.
Policy scenarios and recommendations
- Different policy scenarios are analyzed to assess how government choices affect outcomes.
- Spending potential tax revenues on education and infrastructure results in:
- Higher growth.
- Stronger poverty reduction.
- Results show that the investment of tax revenues in infrastructure and education would foster the positive impact of the project on growth and poverty reduction.
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- Pages: 36
International Monetary Fund. "Guinea: Selected Issues", May 17, 2024.
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- Guinea: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/131; April 24, 2024