Côte d’Ivoire is preparing for presidential elections in October 2015 amid strong macroeconomic performance. All continuous and end-December quantitative performance criteria (PCs) and all but one indicative targets were met. All structural benchmarks were implemented, albeit with a minor...

In spite of the implementation of measures to strengthen public financial management during the last quarter of 2014, the performance criteria (PC) for end-2014 relating to gross tax revenue and bank and market financing of the government were not met owing to administrative weaknesses at the...

All but one performance criteria were met at end-April 2015 and structural benchmarks were largely completed, some with delays. However, there was non-observance of the continuous performance criterion on the ceiling on gross credit to government by Bank of Ghana (BoG) in April by a small margin...