The Gabon Economic Update is an annual World Bank publication that presents an overview of the evolving macroeconomic position in Gabon, followed by a detailed exploration of a specific topic in each edition. The first chapter analyzes recent economic developments, key development challenges, as well as the macroeconomic outlook and risks for Gabon’s future growth. It presents policy actions that could help strengthen fiscal and debt sustainability, contain food inflation, promote job creation, and sustain a resilient growth path. The second chapter of this year’s economic update has a special focus dedicated to fiscal policies for the forestry sector. This chapter analyzes how fiscal policy reforms for forestry can contribute to generating more fiscal revenues, creating more jobs, and promoting sustainable production methods. This report is based on data available as of May 2024.
Year of publication | |
Geographic coverage | Gabon |
Originally published | 18 Oct 2024 |
Related organisation(s) | World Bank |
Knowledge service | Metadata | Global Food and Nutrition Security | Food security and food crisesSustainable Food Systems | Agroforestry |
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | forestry policyeconomic analysispovertyagricultural tradepolicymakinginflationfiscal policy |