IMF Staff Country Reports

Benin: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility

August 12, 2005

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Benin: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

The staff report for the Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility highlights Benin’s economic developments and progress in structural reforms. Benin experienced a decade of good economic performance, but poverty reduction remains a concern. Policy discussions focused on immediate measures to stabilize and restore the fiscal situation and to obtain structural reforms. The structural reform program aims to make progress in implementing the reform agenda of the cotton sector.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Civil service reform, Commodities, Expenditure, Labor, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, Amount, Authorities' strategy, Civil service reform, Cotton sector, CR, Exportled development strategy, Government, Government reform, ISCR, Nigeria, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF loan, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    91

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/288

  • Stock No:

    1BENEA2005002

  • ISBN:

    9781451803464

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685