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Title Burundi : ex post assessment of longer-term program engagement / prepared by an interdepartmental staff team
Published Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (44 pages)
Series IMF country report, 1934-7685 ; no. 11/269
IMF country report ; no. 11/269.
Contents Cover; Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Key Issues; I. Introduction; II. Macroeconomic Developments and Performance under the PRGF/ECF Arrangements; A. Background; Figures; 1. Selected Development Indicators; B. Macroeconomic Performance; 2. Growth and Inflation (1990-2010); 3. External Position (2000-10); 4. Public Finances (2000-10); III. The IMF-supported Programs: Design, Assessment and Lessons; A. The 2004-08 PRGF Arrangement; Boxes; 1. HIPC Initiative, Poverty Reduction and Debt Sustainability; 2. Coffee Sector Reform; Table
1. Conditionality per review: Burundi Relative to other PRGF/ECF Supported ProgramsB. The 2008-11 PRGF/ECF Supported Program; C. Lessons; IV. Outline of a Strategy for Future Fund Engagement; 5. Selected Cross-Country Comparisons; 3. East African Integration: A Game Changer?; 2. Selected Economic and Financial Indicators, 2004-11; Appendices; Appendix 1. Conditionality; Appendix 2. Authorities' Views
Summary Burundi's extreme poverty, post-conflict environment, and persistent fragility created considerable risks to program implementation, calling for extensive flexibility in engagement. The program succeeded in establishing some of the key foundations of macroeconomic stability, mobilizing donor resources, and promoting poverty reduction. A successor program should strike the right balance between reforms narrowly aimed at improving the conduct of macroeconomic policies and other macro-critical reforms. Ensuring public debt sustainability should remain a key program objective. Risks to the new pro
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed October 14, 2011)
Subject International Monetary Fund -- Burundi
SUBJECT International Monetary Fund fast
Subject Loans, Foreign -- Burundi
Economic indicators -- Burundi
Economic history
Economic indicators
Economic policy
Loans, Foreign
SUBJECT Burundi -- Economic conditions
Burundi -- Economic policy
Subject Burundi
Form Electronic book
Author International Monetary Fund, issuing body.
ISBN 1283566451
9781283566452
9781463947385
1463947380
1463902832
9781463902834
Other Titles Burundi, ex post assessment