Guinea-Bissau: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 11, 2005

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Guinea-Bissau: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper analyzes recent economic developments in Guinea-Bissau. The paper highlights the structural problems that will need to be addressed over the next few years if Guinea-Bissau is to break through the downward spiral of declining economic activity, increasing poverty, and political instability. The paper examines the real, fiscal, and monetary sectors in Guinea-Bissau. It also provides an overview of recent developments in the balance of payments and highlights Guinea-Bissau’s severe external debt problem.

Subject: Agroindustries, Arrears, Current spending, Economic sectors, Expenditure, External debt, Revenue administration

Keywords: Africa, Agroindustries, Arrears, Balance of payments, Central bank, Civil war, CR, Current spending, Debt relief, Debt service, Economic activity, Government expenditure, Gross domestic product, Interest rate, ISCR, Monetary policy, Private sector, Transition government, U.S. dollar, West Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

61
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/093
Stock No:

1GNBEA2005002
ISBN:

9781451815771
ISSN:

1934-7685

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