Publication: Mauritania : Accelerating Diversified, Private Sector-Led Growth
Date
2003-11-07
ISSN
Published
2003-11-07
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
In 1992, the Government of Mauritania
embarked on a series of macroeconomic and structural reforms
that have stimulated sustained economic growth, stabilized
public finances, and reduced the state's role in the
economy and increased private sector activity. These
positive developments, furthermore, have resulted in a
decline in the incidence of poverty and improvements in
social indicators. In order to consolidate and further build
upon these achievements, the government has designed a
poverty reduction strategy (PRS) that aims to sharply reduce
poverty and improve social indicators over the 2001-2004
period. This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) reviews the
economic, structural, and institutional reforms introduced
by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(GIRM) since 1992, and assesses the economic and social
impact of these measures, as a prelude to exploring the
long-term structural and regulatory constraints that
Mauritania needs to deal with, in order to achieve an
accelerated, diversified private sector-led growth and
poverty reduction. While sound macroeconomic management is a
cornerstone to build the bases of stronger medium and
long-term economic growth. Key policy actions leading to the
high growth scenario are: enhancing the enabling
environment, promoting private investment in the productive
sectors in order to diversify the sources of growth, and
developing basic infrastructure.
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“World Bank. 2003. Mauritania : Accelerating Diversified, Private Sector-Led Growth. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14654 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”