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This Selected Issues paper examines recent economic developments in Sierra Leone. The paper highlights that the economic recovery in Sierra Leone has benefited especially from the extensive rehabilitation and humanitarian activities in liberated areas. Real GDP growth rose by 4 percent in 2000 and accelerated further in 2001 and 2002. The paper lays out some conceptual issues for the analysis of government debt sustainability, and discusses key issues related to long-term fiscal sustainability. The challenges ahead for rehabilitating Sierra Leone’s mining sector are also examined.

Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Natural Resource Extraction --- Natural Resources --- Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General --- Fiscal Policy --- Extractive industries --- Public finance & taxation --- Environmental management --- Mining sector --- Public debt --- Non-renewable resources --- Fiscal stance --- Domestic debt --- Economic sectors --- Environment --- Fiscal policy --- Mineral industries --- Debts, Public --- Natural resources --- Sierra Leone

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Industrial economics --- Social costs. Social benefits --- Third World: economic development problems --- Mining industry --- World Bank --- Mineral industries --- Sustainable development --- Economic development projects --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry and finance --- Industries --- Environmental aspects --- Evaluation. --- World Bank Group --- Grupa Svjetske banke --- Groupe de la Banque mondiale --- Gruppo della Banca mondiale --- Majmūʻat al-Bank al-Dawlī --- Nhóm Ngân hàng thế giới --- Grupo del Banco Mundial

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This Selected Issues paper analyzes sources of growth in Zambia. It assesses domestic debt dynamics and expenditure composition under two scenarios: first, the execution of the fiscal adjustment envisaged in the 2004 budget and in the medium-term framework; and second, the continuation of recent trends. The paper assesses movements in the external value of the kwacha using a number of different approaches. It also looks at developments in the real exchange rate and in differentials in rates of return on financial assets in Zambia and key financial centers.

Zambia --- Economic conditions. --- Banks and Banking --- Exports and Imports --- Foreign Exchange --- Public Finance --- Natural Resource Extraction --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General --- International economics --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Finance --- Public finance & taxation --- Extractive industries --- Debt service --- Interest payments --- Real interest rates --- Real exchange rates --- Domestic debt --- External debt --- Financial services --- Public debt --- Exchange rates --- Interest rates --- Debts, Public --- Debts, External

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This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper reviews the path of Papua New Guinea’s external debt over the last decade. It explains the underlying macroeconomic framework to better understand the dynamics behind the external debt profile, and assesses the relative scale of the public external debt burden. It addresses the issue of public debt sustainability over the medium term. This paper also summarizes the government’s ongoing reform effort aimed at reducing the size of the civil service and the payroll.

Exports and Imports --- Public Finance --- Taxation --- Natural Resource Extraction --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies --- Public finance & taxation --- International economics --- Extractive industries --- External debt --- Public debt --- Mining sector --- Tariffs --- Income and capital gains taxes --- Economic sectors --- Taxes --- Debts, External --- Debts, Public --- Mineral industries --- Tariff --- Income tax --- Guinea

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The first review of the three-year PRGF arrangement approved on May 2, 2001, has been delayed to give the authorities time to rectify weaknesses in program execution during a four-month consolidation period by meeting specified revenue and expenditure targets set for that period. The medium-term macroeconomic framework underpinning the poverty reduction strategy paper is consistent with that of the initial poverty reduction growth facility (PRGF)-supported program approved. The public enterprise restructuring and privatization program remains a key element of the structural reform agenda.

Banks and Banking --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Natural Resource Extraction --- Social Services and Welfare --- Exports and Imports --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Government Policy --- Provision and Effects of Welfare Program --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General --- Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise: General --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Social welfare & social services --- Banking --- Public finance & taxation --- Extractive industries --- Public ownership --- nationalization --- International economics --- Monetary economics --- Poverty reduction strategy --- Expenditure --- Mining sector --- Public enterprises --- Poverty --- Economic sectors --- Debt service --- External debt --- Public debt --- Banks and banking --- Expenditures, Public --- Mineral industries --- Government business enterprises --- Debts, Public --- Guinea