Projections of The Gambia's economic growth are usually not representative of citizens' socioeconomic status.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has on April 7 stated The Gambia's implementation of [financial] policies during the first quarter of 2014 has "gone off-track".
"[This is] mainly because spending significantly exceeded agreed targets following completion of the first review in May 2013," it says after assessing the authorities' progress in implementing [monetary] policies to bring their reform programme back on track.
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