This 2016 Article IV Consultation highlights a rebound in economic activity in Burkina Faso beginning in 2016, after two years of weak growth. The January terrorist attacks and delays in approving the budget weighed on activity in the early part of 2016, but activity has rebounded, and real GDP...

Burkina Faso faces large social and physical infrastructure gaps, a deteriorating security situation, and unease among the rapidly-expanding population about economic prospects. Growth has been robust, averaging more than 6 percent over the past two years. Activity has been supported by...

This paper discusses Burkina Faso's Second Review of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement and Request for a Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion. Performance under the ECF-supported program has been broadly satisfactory. Economic activity remains resilient in the face of...

This paper assesses the Sixth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria for Burkina Faso. The implementation of the PRGF-supported program remains largely satisfactory, with all but one of the quantitative benchmarks and...