01969cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018526 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484359235 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. African Dept. Guinea- Bissau : Fifth Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, Request for Extension and Augmentation of Access, and Financing Assurances Review-Press Release and Staff Report. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018. 1 online resource (99 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 discusses Guinea-Bissau's Fifth Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement, Requests for Extension and Augmentation of Access, and Financing Assurances Review. Program implementation for the fifth review has been good. All performance criteria and indicative targets were met, as were six of eight structural benchmarks, with one of the remaining two benchmarks subsequently completed and the other under way. Economic activity has remained robust. Real GDP grew by an estimated 5.9 percent in 2017, with consumer price inflation of 1.1 percent and an external current account deficit of 0.5 percent of GDP. The IMF staff supports completion of the fifth review under the ECF arrangement, extension of the arrangement, and augmentation of access. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2018/147 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2018/147/002.2018.issue-147-en.xml IMF e-Library