Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update

Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update

Mauritania is a West African country located on the western edge of the Sahara desert, with a population of approximately 3 million people that is mostly concentrated in the urban areas. The country is in part desert (3/4 of the 1,030,700 square ki...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Public Expenditure Review
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
EXTERNAL SHOCKS
HEALTH
HOUSING
NATURAL RESOURCES
OIL
PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM
PUBLIC SERVICES
RURAL POVERTY
URBAN
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/05/16215662/mauritania-public-expenditure-review-update
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spelling okr-10986-123332021-04-23T14:03:00Z Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update World Bank DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT EXTERNAL SHOCKS HEALTH HOUSING NATURAL RESOURCES OIL PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM PUBLIC SERVICES RURAL POVERTY URBAN Mauritania is a West African country located on the western edge of the Sahara desert, with a population of approximately 3 million people that is mostly concentrated in the urban areas. The country is in part desert (3/4 of the 1,030,700 square kilometers of the territory). Since independence in the 1960s, Mauritania's economy has been dependent on natural resources, iron ore first then combined with fisheries, and presently oil and other minerals. The severe droughts of the 1960s and 1970s, which generated migration from rural to urban areas and created pressures on the country's administration through increased demand for education, housing, employment, health, administrative and other services, which continue up to today. Mauritania's eligibility to the multilateral debt relief initiative in 2006, the beginning of oil exports, the successive food, financial and political-institutional crises, as well as the mining sector boom, were the major factors in the changes in economic aggregates over this period. Mauritania's economic performance deteriorated sharply in 2008-09 on the back of these domestic and external shocks. Real gross development product (GDP) contracted from 5.9 percent in 2007 to -1.2 percent in 2009. The external positions weakened from a deficit of 9 percent of GDP in 2007 to 12.3 percent of GDP in 2009, and international reserves only covered about two months of imports. The government launched the Special Intervention Programme (programme special d'intervention - PSI) in 2008 to reduce the impact of the food crisis on the population. The country faces several key challenges in its recovery, including a narrow productive base, vulnerability to external shocks, a weak business climate, and persistent poverty levels in the rural sector. While the government has an integrated reform agenda on Public Finance Management (PFM), this report highlights a number of bottlenecks that affect the planning and execution of expenditures affecting development goals, and offers a set of prioritized, sequenced measures that mitigate them. 2013-02-13T19:30:21Z 2013-02-13T19:30:21Z 2011-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/05/16215662/mauritania-public-expenditure-review-update http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12333 English en_US Public expenditure review (PER); CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review Economic & Sector Work Africa Mauritania
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topic DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
EXTERNAL SHOCKS
HEALTH
HOUSING
NATURAL RESOURCES
OIL
PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM
PUBLIC SERVICES
RURAL POVERTY
URBAN
spellingShingle DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
EXTERNAL SHOCKS
HEALTH
HOUSING
NATURAL RESOURCES
OIL
PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM
PUBLIC SERVICES
RURAL POVERTY
URBAN
World Bank
Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update
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description Mauritania is a West African country located on the western edge of the Sahara desert, with a population of approximately 3 million people that is mostly concentrated in the urban areas. The country is in part desert (3/4 of the 1,030,700 square kilometers of the territory). Since independence in the 1960s, Mauritania's economy has been dependent on natural resources, iron ore first then combined with fisheries, and presently oil and other minerals. The severe droughts of the 1960s and 1970s, which generated migration from rural to urban areas and created pressures on the country's administration through increased demand for education, housing, employment, health, administrative and other services, which continue up to today. Mauritania's eligibility to the multilateral debt relief initiative in 2006, the beginning of oil exports, the successive food, financial and political-institutional crises, as well as the mining sector boom, were the major factors in the changes in economic aggregates over this period. Mauritania's economic performance deteriorated sharply in 2008-09 on the back of these domestic and external shocks. Real gross development product (GDP) contracted from 5.9 percent in 2007 to -1.2 percent in 2009. The external positions weakened from a deficit of 9 percent of GDP in 2007 to 12.3 percent of GDP in 2009, and international reserves only covered about two months of imports. The government launched the Special Intervention Programme (programme special d'intervention - PSI) in 2008 to reduce the impact of the food crisis on the population. The country faces several key challenges in its recovery, including a narrow productive base, vulnerability to external shocks, a weak business climate, and persistent poverty levels in the rural sector. While the government has an integrated reform agenda on Public Finance Management (PFM), this report highlights a number of bottlenecks that affect the planning and execution of expenditures affecting development goals, and offers a set of prioritized, sequenced measures that mitigate them.
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title Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update
title_short Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update
title_full Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update
title_fullStr Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update
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