Mauritania : Accelerating Diversified, Private Sector-Led Growth

[摘要] In 1992, the Government of Mauritaniaembarked on a series of macroeconomic and structural reformsthat have stimulated sustained economic growth, stabilizedpublic finances, and reduced the state's role in theeconomy and increased private sector activity. Thesepositive developments, furthermore, have resulted in adecline in the incidence of poverty and improvements insocial indicators. In order to consolidate and further buildupon these achievements, the government has designed apoverty reduction strategy (PRS) that aims to sharply reducepoverty and improve social indicators over the 2001-2004period. This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) reviews theeconomic, structural, and institutional reforms introducedby the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania(GIRM) since 1992, and assesses the economic and socialimpact of these measures, as a prelude to exploring thelong-term structural and regulatory constraints thatMauritania needs to deal with, in order to achieve anaccelerated, diversified private sector-led growth andpoverty reduction. While sound macroeconomic management is acornerstone to build the bases of stronger medium andlong-term economic growth. Key policy actions leading to thehigh growth scenario are: enhancing the enablingenvironment, promoting private investment in the productivesectors in order to diversify the sources of growth, anddeveloping basic infrastructure.

[发布日期] 2003-11-07 [发布机构] Washington, DC

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

[关键词] MACROECONOMIC REFORM;PRIVATE SECTOR;ECONOMIC GROWTH;PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT;SOCIAL INDICATORS