01676cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003327 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451962284 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Benin : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (101 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes sources of economic growth in Benin. It concludes that the policies implemented since the early 1990s paved the way for higher growth rate by raising total factor productivity as well as capital accumulation. The paper examines the cotton sector reform in Benin and the subsidies by major producing countries. It also analyzes recent trends in Benin's external competitiveness, and conducts an analysis of the equilibrium exchange rate to assess whether the movements in the real effective exchange rate in Benin were consistent with the underlying macroeconomic fundamentals. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2004/370 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2004/370/002.2004.issue-370-en.xml IMF e-Library