This Selected Issues paper reviews the extent to which growth in Ethiopia has translated into higher living standards … hindering further broadening of growth across key sectors to reduce poverty, and highlights the main areas for policy action. …

country and remedial actions to meet missed performance criteria. Pakistan’s economic growth is expected to remain modest … with GDP growth forecast revised upward to 3.1 percent. The IMF report highlights that the preliminary data for the first … quarter of FY13/14 showed 5 percent growth, mainly driven by services and manufacturing. …

. Outlook -- 1. Growth and Fiscal Consolidation Scenario -- B. Exchange Rate Assessment -- 3. Exchange Rate Assessment -- C …

-Term Policies: Promoting Sustained Nonhydrocarbon Growth -- D. Data and Other Issues -- IV. Staff Appraisal -- Tables -- 1. Selected …

Cover -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Strong Growth in 2006, Though Housing Market Started to Cool -- III. Growth …. Contributions to GDP Growth -- 4. General Government Finances -- 5. Indicators of External and Financial Vulnerability -- Figure … -- 3. Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability -- 4. Finance and Growth -- Appendices -- I. Staff Analytical Work, 2002-07 -- II …

Productivity -- 5. Public Sector -- 6. Financial Sector and Real Estate -- Boxes -- 1. Malta's Deteriorating External …

growth. Maintaining fiscal consolidation paths consistent with IMF-supported programs and surveillance advice, and … growth and enhance economic diversification and resilience, accelerate structural reforms in areas of governance and … regulation; productivity-enhancing investments; and deepen regional trade integration …

regulations. It also suggests accelerating governance and productivity-enhancing structural and regulatory reforms; broaden the …