Country Partnership Framework for the Republic of Cameroon for the Period FY17-FY21

World Bank Group

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: DEVELOPMENT AGENDA;    ECONOMIC OUTLOOK;    INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS;    POVERTY;    SHARED PROSPERITY;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)covers the period FY17-FY21. It sets outthe World BankGroup’s (WBG) proposals for supporting the Government ofCameroon’s (GoC) objectives for inclusive growth and povertyreduction, its commitment to the SustainableDevelopmentGoals (SDGs) and its responsibilities and priorities in thearea of climate changemitigation and adaptation. The GoC’slong-term vision, ‘Cameroon Vision 2035’, is of ‘anemerging, democratic and united country in diversity’. Tooperationalize this Vision, the Government adopted a Growthand Employment Strategy (‘DSCE’, ‘Document de Stratégie pourla Croissance et l’Emploi’) in 2009 and defined specificobjectives to be achieved by 2020. The GoC has furtheradopted the United Nations 2030 Agenda for SustainableDevelopment. It also endorsed the Paris Agreement under theUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change andpublished Cameroon’s Nationally Determined Contributions(NDC) setting out its contribution to climate changemitigation and priorities for adaptation. The CPF draws on acomprehensive Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD, report103098-CM), completed duringFY16, which identifiedconstraints to achieving the World Bank’s Twin Goals ofeliminatingpoverty and fostering shared prosperity in asocially and environmentally sustainable way. TheCPF alsobenefited from other pieces of analytical work, including agender assessment and afragility assessment carried out in2015. Cameroon’s vision of becoming an upper middle-incomecountry, and of reducing poverty to less than 10 percent by2035 (29 percent by 2020), is highly ambitious. It wouldsimply an annual real GDP growth of 5.5 percent per capitaduring the period, which would represent a marked increasefrom historical patterns, and strong sector, social andspatial policies that can reverse the inequalities observedover the past two decades. The SCD points to three mainareas of constraints - and opportunities - to achievingthese objectives: (i) low rural productivity, particularlyin northern regions; (ii) a non-conducive businessenvironment for the formal and informal private sector; and(iii) fragility and poor governance of the private andpublic sectors.