Burundi: 2008 Article IV Consultation and Request for Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Burundi

August 13, 2008

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Burundi: 2008 Article IV Consultation and Request for Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Burundi, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Burundi is emerging slowly from more than a decade of civil conflict. GDP per capita is about US$139, and only 18 percent of the population is food secure. Economic growth slowed down while inflation increased in 2007. External developments were dominated by a decline in exports and a sharp rise in grants. Executive Directors have commended the authorities for the progress they have made in implementing Burundi’s first Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility-supported program in a difficult post-conflict environment.

Subject: Banking, Expenditure, Food prices, Inflation, Macrostructural analysis, Prices, Public financial management (PFM), Structural reforms

Keywords: Africa, CR, Executive director for Burundi, Food prices, Global, Inflation, ISCR, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, PRGF-supported program, Statement, Statement by Peter J. Gakunu, Structural reforms

Publication Details

Pages:

82
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2008/282
Stock No:

1BDIEA2008002
ISBN:

9781451802962
ISSN:

1934-7685

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