West African Economic and Monetary Union : selected issues /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource (67 pages) : color illustrations.
Language:English
Series:IMF Country Report ; No. 16/98
IMF country report ; no. 16/98.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12505064
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Other authors / contributors:Loko, Boileau. author, (IMF staff)
Yontcheva, Boriana. author, (IMF staff)
Barhoumi, Karim. author, (IMF staff)
Dieterich, Christine. author, (IMF staff)
Cui, Larry. author, (IMF staff)
Klos, Stefan. author, (IMF staff)
Newiak, Monique. author, (IMF staff)
Yang, Fan, 1951- author, (IMF staff)
Ye, Yanmin. author, (IMF staff)
Vu, Ha, author, (IMF staff)
Sola, Sergio. author, (IMF staff)
Awad, Rachid. author, (IMF staff)
Zdzienicka, Aleksandra. author, (IMF staff)
Raabe, Alexander. author.
International Monetary Fund, issuing body.
International Monetary Fund. African Department.
ISBN:1475550006
9781475550009
ISSN:1934-7685
Notes:"April 2016."
"March 3, 2016; approved by the African Department; prepared by Boileau Loko, Boriana Yontcheva, Karim Barhoumi, Christine Dieterich, Larry Cui, Stefan Klos, Monique Newiak, Fan Yang, Yanmin Ye (all AFR), Ha Vu (FAD), Sergio Sola (MCD), Rachid Awad (MCM), Aleksandra Zdzienicka (SPR), and Alexander Raabe (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) with assistance from Sandrine Ourigou."--page 2 of pdf.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (IMF.org website, viewed May 11, 2016).
Summary:This paper presents stylized facts on the quantitative and qualitative infrastructure gap in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), estimates the efficiency of public investment, and recommends how to improve it. The WAEMU countries face an important common challenge of creating sufficient fiscal space to finance ambitious growth, development, and poverty-reduction programs in individual countries. This paper also provides comparative evidence of the situation of WAEMU in several areas of financial development relative to groups of benchmark countries. The state of inclusion in the WAEMU along three dimensions-poverty, income inequality, and gender inequality-is also examined in this paper.
Other form:Print Version: West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 9781475550009
Standard no.:10.5089/9781475550009.002