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Hong Kong SAR''s government faces the dual challenges of volatile revenue and medium term spending pressures arising from a rapidly aging population. Age-related spending pressures raise long-run sustainability concerns, while revenue volatility creates risks to service provision, possibly...
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Trinidad and Tobago is experiencing an energy boom stronger than the ones in 1970s and 1980s. The main fiscal policy challenge is to ensure that the increased revenues from the ultimately exhaustible resources are used in a way that protects the competitiveness of the nonenergy sector, builds...
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This Selected Issues paper for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) underlies the recent upward trend in inflation that was heavily influenced by external factors. The policy mix to achieve price stability requires effective control of money supply and fiscal restraint. As...
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The Fund has long played a lead role in supporting developing countries' efforts to improve their revenue mobilization. This paper draws on that experience to review issues and good practice, and to assess prospects in this key area
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Singapore’s economic growth has been heavily dependent on factor accumulation during the past three decades. Attempts … to gauge productivity growth in Singapore and other East Asian countries has led to the widely publicized debate on … by the authorities, Singapore’s productivity growth was indeed very low until the 1980s, but has improved significantly …
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This Statistical Appendix report on Singapore discusses the economic indicators for the period 1995–99. The report …; foreign direct investment inflows by industry; assets and liabilities of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; assets and … liabilities of commercial banks of Singapore; summary of balance of payments; export and import performance; services and income …
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This Selected Issues paper assesses the stability of Singapore’s banking system in a regional context. It proposes a … Monetary Authority of Singapore’s exchange rate-centered framework is well suited to shape monetary decision making, given the …
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This 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that Singapore has been severely affected by the global downturn. The …. Executive Directors have observed that the floating exchange rate regime has served Singapore well, and that the exchange …
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international financial markets have been propagated to Singapore mostly through the trade channel. Inflation has risen … steps by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to tighten the monetary policy stance further by adjusting the exchange rate …
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