Poverty reduction has been elusive in Burundi. Following the socio-political crisis of 2015, real per capita GDP contracted by an annualized rate of 1.9 percent between 2015 and 2020. Burundi's Human Capital...
Sao Tome and Príncipe (STP) remains in debt distress, due to prolonged unsettled external arrears of around 1.3 percent of GDP at end-2024. Nevertheless, staff assesses that the country has the capacity...