largely driven by a sharp rise in global gold prices<\/a> and by reforms in the mining sector championed by the government of Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9.\n <\/p>\n\n According to the Fund, the mining boom has transformed the country\u2019s external position, shifting the current account from deficit to a projected surplus of 1.1 percent of GDP in 2025 and 0.8 percent in 2026.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBurkina Faso\u2019s economy has proven resilient amid security and humanitarian challenges,\u201d said Kenji Okamura, noting that improved governance measures and stronger domestic revenue mobilisation have helped create fiscal space while keeping inflation contained and debt on a sustainable path.\n <\/p>\n
\n Beyond macroeconomic stability, the newly approved RSF aims to strengthen climate resilience in one of the world\u2019s most climate-vulnerable regions.\n <\/p>\n
\n With roughly 80 percent of the population dependent on subsistence farming, the funding is expected to support agricultural adaptation measures and improve disaster risk financing, reducing the country\u2019s periodic reliance on emergency food imports.\n <\/p>\n
\n However, the IMF signalled that governance reforms remain a work in progress. Authorities have completed six of eleven priority recommendations under the Governance Diagnostic Assessment, including steps to strengthen the integrity of mining licence procedures.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ouagadougou has pledged to continue fiscal consolidation, targeting a deficit ceiling of 3.5 percent of GDP while protecting spending on health and social programmes, a balancing act that will be closely watched by investors and development partners alike.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington-based lender also approved a new Resilience and Sustainability Facility valued at roughly $124.3 million, which will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-299528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}