## Mali: Request for Disbursement Under the Rapid Credit Facility and Request for a Staff-Monitored Program-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Mali

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 9, 2025_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 9, 2025
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229009492.002

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### Context and Recent Developments
- Publication date: May 9, 2025
- Mali’s economy faces:
  - climate shocks amid security and humanitarian crisis
  - tight financing conditions and high borrowing costs
- Recent flooding:
  - damaged infrastructure and agriculture
  - disrupted services
  - worsened food insecurity
  - increased internal displacement

### Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) Disbursement — Purpose and Intended Use
- The RCF disbursement is expected to help authorities address the urgent balance of payment needs resulting from the floods.
- Specific intended financing uses include:
  - financing imports for essential items
  - financing critical infrastructure
- The IMF emergency financing will help address urgent balance of payment needs from the floods.

### Staff‑Monitored Program (SMP) — Scope, Duration, and Objectives
- Duration: 11-month SMP
- The SMP aims to:
  - reinforce macroeconomic stability
  - strengthen resilience
  - protect the vulnerable
  - improve governance
  - serve as an anchor for the government’s macroeconomic policy priorities

### Fiscal Policy Guidance and Reform Priorities
- SMP envisages fiscal policy to ensure sustainability amid:
  - tight financing conditions
  - high borrowing costs
- Reforms include:
  - enhancing domestic revenue mobilization by broadening the tax base
  - strengthening revenue and customs administration

### Thematic Focus and Keywords
- Subject areas: Debt sustainability, Debt sustainability analysis, External debt, Public debt, Revenue administration
- Keywords: Africa, common external tariff, Debt sustainability, Debt sustainability analysis, Global, IMF emergency financing, rate structure, RCF disbursement, WAEMU tariff reform, West Africa

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