Burkina Faso: Selected Issues

Author: International Monetary Fund. African Dept.

Volume/Issue: Volume 2016 Issue 391

Publication date: December 2016

ISBN: 9781475562590

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Exports and Imports , Labor , Public Finance , ISCR , CR , pay , investment , wage bill , government , sustainability risk , investment efficiency , Ivoirian authorities , investment scaling-up , investment project , bill in Burkina Faso , GDP ratio , Public investment spending , Wages , Wage adjustments , Public employment , Civil service , West Africa , Sub-Saharan Africa

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the impact of scaled-up public investment in Burkina Faso. The results suggest that “big-push” investment efforts, while designed to accelerate growth, are likely to run up against significant absorption-capacity constraints. These constraints will diminish the efficiency of investment spending and result in lower public capital accumulation and productivity growth than under a more measured approach. The empirical evidence from the experience of many countries also suggests that the results of aggressive scaling-up initiatives are mixed.