To ensure that this trend continues, it is important to expand the socioeconomic infrastructure (health, education, safe drinking water, electricity, housing, etc.) in all communes, especially in the poor communes, and to secure its operation in the long-term. 157. Based on the principle of...
The focus on agriculture is expected to enhance the inclusiveness of growth over the near and medium term, while education and infrastructure investment—particularly in telecommunications and electricity—would help to diversify the economy down the road. Additional expenditures on agriculture would center...
13 Executive Directors approved the provision of interim debt relief beginning in January 2001, through a reduction of 90 percent of debt service falling due on disbursed and outstanding debt to IDA as of December 31, 1999. In January 2008, IDA increased its limit from one third to one half...