Burundi is a small landlocked country bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the west, Rwanda to the north and Tanzania to the east and south. Burundi is endowed with deposits of gold, tin, tungsten and tantalum (3Ts), lithium, rare earth minerals (the lanthanides), vanadium,...

In response to a request from the Bank of the Republic of Burundi (BRB), the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) carried out a Financial Sector Stability Review (FSSR) mission from January 31 through February 13, 2024. The FSSR performed a...

Growing concerns over climate change have underscored the need for rapid actions to mitigate its impacts. In that regard, this study sought to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to total final energy consumption in Burundi. By using the Low Emissions Analysis Platform, GHG emissions...

The Country Opinion Survey in Burundi assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Burundi perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector,...

The objective of this paper was to analyse the relationship between inflation and economic growth in Burundi and to determine whether there is an inflation threshold or not to allow monetary authority to adopt the optimal policies to deal with shocks. With annual data from 1990 to 2020, the ARDL...

What are the benefits that a man generates to his household just for the sake of being a man? Using regression discontinuity design, we estimate the impact of adult male presence in female headed households on six socioeconomic outcomes in rural Burundi. We use the age of the oldest male in the...