This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect … taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct fiscal transfers. Although the richest people in Mali and Niger pay …

in Mali. In recent years, important gains have been made across multiple dimensions of household welfare, but poverty in … Mali remains widespread and extreme. The COVID-19 induced crisis has reversed much of the progress in poverty reduction … achieved in Mali over the last decade. Rural poverty in Mali is strongly associated with employment in low …

The three countries covered in this first report, Mali, Chad and Niger, share a number of common characteristics and … natural resource industries, gold for Mali, uranium and oil for Niger, and oil for Chad, which represent the bulk of export …. Hence, Section three discusses the impact of public investment volatility on its quality in Chad, Mali and Niger, and …

Macroeconomic management in Chad, Mali and Niger needs to account for a number of specific parameters. Very rapid …

, and (ii) the many competing 'binding' reasons for poverty in Mali. The objectives of the twin goals are similar for Mali …This document presents the Systematic Country Diagnosis (SCD) for Mali. The SCD was prepared following a consultative … poverty and improving shared prosperity by 2030 while acknowledging (i) the need for selectivity in pro-poor interventions …

attention. To help answer such questions, and to analyze how to reduce poverty in Mali as a whole, this study uses different …This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and … explores how policies to reduce poverty can be made more effective by taking these two factors into account. The crisis in …