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020 |a 9781498307192 
245 0 0 |a Guinea  |b Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, and Financing Assurances Review 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2014 
300 |a 87 pages 
651 4 |a Guinea 
653 |a Finance, Public 
653 |a Natural Resource Extraction 
653 |a Banks 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Mineral industries 
653 |a Banks and banking 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a Mortgages 
653 |a International Lending and Debt Problems 
653 |a National accounts 
653 |a National income 
653 |a National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Public financial management (PFM) 
653 |a Banking 
653 |a Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General 
653 |a Financial Risk Management 
653 |a Depository Institutions 
653 |a State supervision 
653 |a Debt relief 
653 |a Bank supervision 
653 |a Debt Management 
653 |a Micro Finance Institutions 
653 |a Debt 
653 |a Mining sector 
653 |a Budget planning and preparation 
653 |a Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation 
653 |a Economic sectors 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a Debts, External 
653 |a Sovereign Debt 
653 |a Banks and Banking 
653 |a Financial regulation and supervision 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Financial services law & regulation 
653 |a Extractive industries 
710 2 |a International Monetary Fund  |b African Dept 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Staff Country Reports 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781498307192.002 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2014/244/002.2014.issue-244-en.xml?cid=41822-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a Completion of the review will result in a disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 18.36 million under the ECF arrangement 
520 |a EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Economic activity remained weak in early 2014. Activity was impacted by an outbreak of the Ebola virus since late 2013, but lagging structural reforms, energy shortages, and political uncertainty may also be at play. Economic growth is estimated to have been 2.3 percent in 2013, and is projected at 3.5 percent in 2014, supported by higher public investment and assuming a gradual start-up of new mining sector investment. Inflation fell to below 10 percent year-on-year in May 2014, international reserves covered 3.6 months of imports by end-2013, and the exchange rate has remained stable. Performance under the ECF-supported program remains broadly satisfactory, although progress with structural reform has been slow. All performance criteria for end-2013 were met as were all but one (the floor on priority sector spending) of the program’s indicative targets for March 2014.  
520 |a  However, the structural benchmarks for the second half of 2013 and early-2014 could not be completed as planned. The policy discussions focused on (i) the growth outlook for 2014; (ii) a supplementary budget for 2014 in light of a shortfall in revenues and new spending needs; (iii) progress in implementing structural reforms; and (iv) debt management. Risks to the program largely stem from domestic factors. New cases of Ebola have surged and spread more widely in recent months, which could affect growth in the second half of the year. The recent approval of the investment framework for the large Simandou iron ore project augurs well for a gradual pick-up in mining activity. However, renewed political tensions and uncertainty in the run-up to presidential elections, due in the second half of 2015, could risk delaying new investment. Staff supports completing the fourth review under the ECF arrangement and the financing assurances review.