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Taxation and Pricing of Petroleum Products in Developing Countries; A Framework for Analysis with Application to Nigeria

Hossain, Shahabuddin Mosherraf - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Using the modern theory of public economics as the point of departure, this paper outlines a basic principle for setting taxes and/or prices of commodities based on two key criteria, efficiency and equity. The paper shows that for petroleum products, the basic principle needs modification in the...

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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation; Evidence From Brazil and Mexico

Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Chamon, Marcos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico …

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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure; The Case of Tanzania

Ter-Minassian, Teresa; Hughes, Richard; Hajdenberg, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship between …) domestic revenue mobilization, (iv) external grants and concessional financing, and (v) sovereign borrowing on domestic or …

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Caribbean Approaches to Economic Stabilization

Hilaire, Alvin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

In the late 1980s Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago found themselves in severe economic difficulties. Their ensuing economic strategies were all market-based, featured fiscal contraction and trade liberalization, multilateral support loans and, later on, tax and financial sector...

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Debt Accumulation in the CIS-7 Countries; Bad Luck, Bad Policies, or Bad Advice

Mody, Ashoka; Sahay, Ratna; Helbling, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1992, several low-income countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) accumulated substantial external debt in a short time span, about half of which is owed to multilateral financial institutions. Three factors contributed to the current...

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The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in Honduras

Newhouse, David Locke; Yackovlev, Irene; Gillingham, Robert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully explained. Rather than look at tax and spending completely independently, we evaluate net incidence...

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Introducing Financial Management Information Systems in Developing Countries

Khemani, Pokar; Diamond, Jack - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

In the past decade, developing countries (DCs) have been encouraged to reform their public expenditure management systems and have increasingly embarked on major projects to computerize their government operations. Most popular among these have been projects to computerize government accounting...

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Public Expenditureson Social Programs and Household Consumption in China

Baldacci, Emanuele; Ding, Ding; Coady, David; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper shows that increasing government social expenditures can make a substantive contribution to increasing … social expenditures for a panel of OECD countries and provides illustrative estimates of their implications for China. It … sustained 1 percent of GDP increase in public expenditures, distributed equally across education, health, and pensions, would …

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Absorption Boom and Fiscal Stance; What Lies Ahead in Eastern Europe?

Rahman, Jesmin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

phase of capital inflows, some with large vulnerabilities and inflexible monetary policy options, the role of fiscal policy …

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The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy in the Middle East and Central Asia:Is the Current Crisis Different?

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

capital markets, and natural resource wealth. Not surprisingly, the oil exporters have more fiscal room than oil importers …

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