Mauritania - Improving the Management of Public Resources : Innovative Approaches
A common image of Mauritania is one of a sparsely populated country, with a nomadic population, limited physical resources and poor social and economic indicators. This was indeed the case only a decade ago. Less well-known is the fact that since a...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1997/11/12862357/mauritania-improving-management-public-resources-innovative-approaches http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9914 |
| Summary: | A common image of Mauritania is one of a
sparsely populated country, with a nomadic population,
limited physical resources and poor social and economic
indicators. This was indeed the case only a decade ago. Less
well-known is the fact that since about 1992 Mauritania has
successfully managed a major transition to economic and
political liberalization and has, with the support of the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
implemented a far-reaching set of macro-economic and
structural reforms. Results obtained so far are
considerable: public finances have been stabilized, private
sector investment is growing, social indicators are
improving, and poverty is declining. There are also negative
effects, including heavy rural-urban migration, high urban
unemployment and growing demands for social services and
infrastructure. Clearly, while the transition to a
market-oriented economy has begun, the process is not
complete. To maintain the momentum of the economic reforms
begun in 1992 and to consolidate the gains made so far, the
government decided in 1994/95 to improve the mobilization,
allocation and management of its public resources. It
developed a Public Resource Management Program which had the
following objectives: 1) strengthen economic policy-making
capacity; 2) improve domestic resource mobilization by
broadening and diversifying the tax base; 3) improve public
expenditure allocation and management; and 4) modernize
public administration to better meet the needs of a
market-oriented economy. |
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