Gabon

Gabon
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781451813968

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper on Gabon reviews management of oil revenues, competitiveness, and growth. The nature of Gabon’s problems has not changed during the past 15 years. The need to diversify the economy and the export base; control fiscal expenditure and the wage bill; carefully assess capital expenditure; and reform public sector enterprises are the challenges that the Gabonese need to be prepared to implement adequately. Gabon faces huge medium-term fiscal constraints imposed by the expected steady decline in oil production and its depletion.

Africa South of the Sahara 2004

Africa South of the Sahara 2004
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 1474
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781857431834

A definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic and directory data.

Gabon

Gabon
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2005-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 145181397X

The staff report for the combined consultation and 2005 Article IV Consultation on Gabon highlights economic developments and policies. Preparing Gabon for the post-oil era requires strengthening the efficiency of the public sector and providing a framework for private sector development to raise the productivity of the Gabonese economy. In the public sector, improving expenditure management, especially of public investment, is essential. Gabon remains keen to seek a multiyear follow-up program after the expiration of the Stand-By Arrangement.