Benin: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

October 5, 1998

Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines some aspects of the civil service reform in Benin. It describes the main features of the promotion and compensation system currently in place; assesses the early efforts at reforming the civil service; and examines the main measures envisaged for 1998–2001. The paper assesses the impact of savings and loan associations on financial intermediation. It reviews the development of savings and loan associations in Benin, with particular focus on Federation of Rural Savings and Loan Cooperatives (FECECAM) because of its leading role in the system.

Subject: Civil service, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Labor, Loans

Keywords: Africa, Beninese authorities, CFA franc, Civil service, CR, financial crisis, Health care, Health care spending, Index grid, ISCR, Loans, public expenditure, wage bill, wage index, West Africa

Pages:
108
Volume:
1998
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803334.002
Issue:
088
Series:
Country Report No. 1998/088
Stock No:
1BENEA0011998
ISBN:
9781451803334
ISSN:
1934-7685

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