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This paper provides a primer on benefit incidence analysis (BIA) for macroeconomists and a new data set on the benefit incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in quality and coverage over existing compilations. The...
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Global investment patterns mean that effective taxation of foreign investors is of increasing importance to the economies of lower income countries. It is thus of considerable concern that the historical framework for cross-border income tax arrangements is not always well suited to allow...
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This Selected Issues Paper discusses some observations on Singapore’s monetary policy framework. Singapore’s monetary policy uses the nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) as the instrument in a basket-band-crawl framework. The paper finds that under some conditions an exchange...
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Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation on Singapore. Overall compliance with IOSCO …
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This paper discusses findings of the Report on Observance of Standards and Codes on Singapore. The Monetary Authority … of Singapore (MAS) shows a very high level of compliance with the Basel Core Principles and demonstrates a strong … system that is significantly larger than the economy of Singapore, and comprised primarily of branches of foreign …
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Banking Supervision on Singapore. The assessment of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) represents a very high level of … implementation. MAS is well aware of the risks posed by a financial system that is significantly larger than the economy of Singapore …
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economy, Singapore is particularly exposed to external risks related to a protracted period of slower growth in advanced and … strengthened in the context of a rapidly aging population. Policy assessment. Singapore continues to implement a strong set of … large current account surplus. Financial regulation and supervision is among the best globally and Singapore is a …
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This paper discusses key findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment on Singapore. The Singapore financial … best globally. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) oversees the entire financial system, and has the analytical and … operational capabilities to do so effectively. Singapore is exposed to a broad array of domestic and global risks, especially in …
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This Selected Issues paper focuses on the real estate market and Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. It discusses the measures that could mitigate risks associated with the real estate cycle and the international experience with real estate booms and hosting large events such as World Expos,...
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