IMF Staff Country Reports

Benin: Ex Post Assessment of Performance Under Fund-Supported Programs

November 24, 2004

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Summary

This Ex Post Assessment reviews Benin’s progress in implementing economic policies and reforms supported by the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) and Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangements since 1993, and draws lessons for a possible successor arrangement. The paper briefly presents developments prior to these arrangements, including the comprehensive stabilization and liberalization of the economy starting in 1989. It also reviews the performance under the three arrangements during 1993–2003. It also discusses the role that the IMF could play in helping the authorities meet various challenges.

Subject: Civil service reform, Expenditure, Labor, Macrostructural analysis, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Public financial management (PFM), Structural reforms

Keywords: Budget cycle, CFA franc, Civil service reform, CR, Debt management, Economic growth, Ginning plant, Government deficit, Government finance, Government intervention, Government monopoly, Government performance, Government program, ISCR, Poverty reduction strategy, Poverty-reducing expenditure, PRSP preparation process, Public expenditure, Public spending, Real GDP, Reduction strategy, Structural reforms, Total factor productivity, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/371

  • Stock No:

    1BENEA0042004

  • ISBN:

    9781451961737

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685