The IMF has praised Senegal for progress in stabilising its economy, achieving completion point for HIPC debt relief and reducing poverty. However, the organisation has put pressure on Senegal to open up its economy to foreign trade, arguing that liberalisation would further reduce poverty.

Despite the criticism aimed at many water privatisation schemes across Africa, Senegal has provided a successful model of a public/private partnership in water management. Senegalaise des Eaux, a subsidiary of the French firm Saur, the fourth largest water company in the world, has contributed in reconstructing Dakar's ailing water system, with the government claiming that the city's needs are met until 2015.

The IMF has praised Senegal for progress in stabilising its economy, achieving completion point for HIPC debt relief and reducing poverty. However, the organisation has put pressure on Senegal to open up its economy to foreign trade, arguing that liberalisation would further reduce poverty.

A Canadian company has been contracted to extend Sonatel, Senegal’s national telecommunications provision, into rural areas. Senegal ranks second in sub-Saharan Africa for internet connectivity, surpassed only by South Africa.
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Peace is slowly returning to the Casamance and development programmes led by UNDP are under way in the province after the protracted 22 year civil war. But the mainstream international donor community remains unwilling to commit without further evidence of stability.
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In April 2004 President Abdoulaye Wade fired his fourth prime minister, Idrissa Seck, and installed Macky Sall to the position. Political commentators suggest that Wade’s measures are as much about reinforcing his own position as improving government.

With the help of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Senegal is hoping to introduce more expensive but more effective drugs nationwide in a bid to improve the country's success in fighting malaria. An earlier 2003 programme was discontinued due to poor implementation.