01785cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016744 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475550009 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. African Dept. West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (67 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 paper presents stylized facts on the quantitative and qualitative infrastructure gap in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), estimates the efficiency of public investment, and recommends how to improve it. The WAEMU countries face an important common challenge of creating sufficient fiscal space to finance ambitious growth, development, and poverty-reduction programs in individual countries. This paper also provides comparative evidence of the situation of WAEMU in several areas of financial development relative to groups of benchmark countries. The state of inclusion in the WAEMU along three dimensions-poverty, income inequality, and gender inequality-is also examined in this paper. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2016/098 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2016/098/002.2016.issue-098-en.xml IMF e-Library