This paper highlights Burundi's Request for a 38-Month Arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). Burundi faces protracted balance of payments needs with a widening current account deficit and low foreign reserves coverage, large development needs, and macroeconomic challenges...

This Selected Issues paper focuses on decomposing the public-private sector wage differential in Lesotho. Lesotho's public wage bill is significantly higher than in other countries in the region. This paper takes a closer look at the civil service wage bill and examines public sector wage...

The 2023 Article IV Consultation discusses that Lesotho's economy continues to face a number of challenges in the wake of the pandemic. Climate shocks, delays to infrastructure projects, high food and fuel prices, declining diamond prices, layoffs in the textiles sector, and weak regional and...

This paper presents Kenya's Fifth Reviews under the Extended Fund Facility and Extended Credit Facility Arrangements and Request for a 20-month Arrangement under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), Requests for Extension, Rephasing, and Augmentation of Access, Modification of a...

This paper presents Cabo Verde's 2023 Article IV Consultation, Second Review under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, and Request for Modification of a Performance Criterion. Cabo Verde remains vulnerable to external shocks and climate related disruptions and the significant gains...

This Selected Issues paper focuses on boosting sustainable growth in Zambia. Zambia's economy is highly dependent on mining and agriculture, but despite its abundant resources, growth has been insufficient to lift its young and growing population from poverty. The new government, which came into...

This paper highlights Zambia's 2023 Article IV Consultation, First Review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement, and Financing Assurances Review. Zambia's performance under the program remains strong. All quantitative performance criteria for the first review and nine structural...

This paper highlights Republic of Mozambique's Second Review under the Three-Year Arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), Requests for Modification of The Monetary Policy Consultation Clause, Waivers of Nonobservance for Quantitative Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances...

This paper presents Niger's Third Review under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, Request for Extension, Rephasing, and Modification of Performance Criteria of the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, and Request for an Arrangement under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The...

This paper highlights Cameroon's Fourth Reviews under the Extended Credit Facility and the Extended Fund Facility Arrangements, and Requests for Waiver for Nonobservance of Performance Criterion and Modification of Performance Criteria. Cameroon's economic recovery has continued in an uncertain...