Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal
Senegal's fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise owing partly to an ailing and inefficient oil-based energy sector
Abstract
Senegal鈥檚 fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise in recent years owing partly to an ailing and inefficient oil-based energy sector. In this paper the authors use a two-sector, open-economy, dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of varying fiscal policy instruments one at a time and of policy packages that increase public investment in energy and infrastructure in scenarios with varying degrees of debt finance and with different types of supporting fiscal adjustment.
This work is part of the 鈥楳acroeconomics in Low-income countries鈥� programme
Citation
Salifou Issoufou, Edward F Buffie, Mouhamadou Bamba Diop, Kalidou Thiaw (2014) Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal. IMF Working Paper No. 14/44