Estimating Quasi-fiscal Deficits in a Consistency Framework
Estimating Quasi-fiscal Deficits in a Consistency Framework

Author: Philippe Le Houerou

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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To assess fully the effect of adjustment programs and development strategies, it is essential that the fiscal deficit include quasi- fiscal deficits-- the losses of public financial institutions such as the central bank. A flow- of- funds format may be the best approach for doing so, as this case shows.

Guidelines for Public Expenditure Management
Guidelines for Public Expenditure Management

Author: Mr.Jack Diamond

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781557757876

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Traditionally, economics training in public finances has focused more on tax than public expenditure issues, and within expenditure, more on policy considerations than the more mundane matters of public expenditure management. For many years, the IMF's Public Expenditure Management Division has answered specific questions raised by fiscal economists on such missions. Based on this experience, these guidelines arose from the need to provide a general overview of the principles and practices observed in three key aspects of public expenditure management: budget preparation, budget execution, and cash planning. For each aspect of public expenditure management, the guidelines identify separately the differing practices in four groups of countries - the francophone systems, the Commonwealth systems, Latin America, and those in the transition economies. Edited by Barry H. Potter and Jack Diamond, this publication is intended for a general fiscal, or a general budget, advisor interested in the macroeconomic dimension of public expenditure management.

Transparency in Government Operations
Transparency in Government Operations

Author: Mr.J. D. Craig

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1998-02-03

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 155775697X

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Transparency in government operations is widely regarded as an important precondition for macroeconomic fiscal sustainability, good governance, and overall fiscal rectitude. Notably, the Interim Committee, at its April and September 1996 meetings, stressed the need for greater fiscal transparency. Prompted by these concerns, this paper represents a first attempt to address many of the aspects of transparency in government operations. It provides an overview of major issues in fiscal transparency and examines the IMF's role in promoting transparency in government operations.

Risk Management and Stable Financial Structures for LDC Inc
Risk Management and Stable Financial Structures for LDC Inc

Author: Andrew Sheng

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 26

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National risk management and stable financial structures are essential to the long- term economic growth of developing countries. The 1980s taught many nations the heavy cost of the financial distress associated with poor national and sectoral risk management.

The Lucky Few Amidst Economic Decline
The Lucky Few Amidst Economic Decline

Author: Christiaan Grootaert

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 42

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Panel data sets show that a lucky few bucked the general trend of economic decline in Côte d'Ivoire -- that among the poorest of the poor, some actually improved their standard of living, despite a great increase in the incidence of poverty.

Multiannual Macroeconomic Programming Techniques For Developing Economies
Multiannual Macroeconomic Programming Techniques For Developing Economies

Author: Paul Beckerman

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010-02-26

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9814466557

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This book describes practical techniques to formulate multiannual macroeconomic projections for developing economies. The approach is broadly similar to that of well-known financial-programming “models”, but some of the material, including solution procedures for the external and fiscal projections and the external-debt projection methodology, is innovative. The basic aim of macroeconomic programming exercises is to determine whether a quantitatively specified macroeconomic and government-expenditure policy program would be “financially feasible” — that is, consistent over time with external and internal financing likely to be available. Exercises of the kind described here formulate national-, external-, fiscal-, and monetary-accounts projections, based on (i) assumed behavioral parameters; (ii) assumed “exogenous” world conditions and internal variables; (iii) programmed macroeconomic objectives such as real growth, inflation, and exchange-rate evolution; (iv) programmed real government expenditure; (v) an external-debt program; and (vi) data for the “base” year preceding the projection period. The projections include estimates of the external and internal financing the public sector and economy as a whole would require, which may be evaluated for feasibility. Among other applications, macroeconomic programming exercises may be used to help gauge the financial feasibility of development and poverty-reduction objectives (like the UN Millennium Development Goals), or to address external-debt “sustainability”.