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Nigeria: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix »
Source: Nigeria : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Volume/Issue: 2005/303
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 26 August 2005
ISBN: 9781451828979
Keywords: fiscal policy, international monetary fund, financial assets, central bank
This Selected Issues paper on Nigeria highlights challenges faced by the country in building on the achievements of 2004. The authorities will have to maintain macroeconomic stability while implementing ambitious s...

Addressing the Natural Resource Curse »
Source: Addressing the Natural Resource Curse : An Illustration From Nigeria
Volume/Issue: 2003/139
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Arvind Subramanian , and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2003
ISBN: 9781451856064
Keywords: institutions, growth, natural resource, oil revenues, oil prices, natural gas, Economywide Country Studies: Africa, Comparative Studies of Countries, Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity, Economywide Country Studies,
Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their deleterious impact on institutional quality. We show this result to be very robust. The Nigerian exper...

How Much Is Enough? Monte Carlo Simulations of an Oil Stabilization Fund for Nigeria »
Source: How Much Is Enough? Monte Carlo Simulations of an Oil Stabilization Fund for Nigeria
Volume/Issue: 2006/142
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Ulrich Bartsch
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2006
ISBN: 9781451864021
Keywords: Oil stabilization fund, Monte Carlo simulation, fiscal policy, fiscal spending, government spending, government revenue, Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment
In oil-dependent countries, a major issue is how to stabilize fiscal spending when government revenue fluctuates along with the international price of oil. A stabilization fund would allow the government to pull th...

Apéndice I. Países ricos en hidrocarburos y minerales; 2000–05 »
Source: Guía sobre la transparencia del ingreso proveniente de los recursos naturales
Series: Manuals & Guides
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 September 2008
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 9781589067059
Cuadro 1. Países ricos en hidrocarburos; 2000–05 1 2...

III A Framework for National Economic Management »
Source: Oil Exporters' Economic Development in an Interdependent World
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Jahangir Amuzegar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 06 April 1983
ISBN: 9781557750785
Keywords: opec, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, oil exports, oil exporting countries
Critical choices of development strategy facing the oil exporting developing countries revolve around the prospects for and limitations of their underlying economic structure as major oil exporters. On the p...

IV Policy Options and Country Experiences »
Source: Oil Exporters' Economic Development in an Interdependent World
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Jahangir Amuzegar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 06 April 1983
ISBN: 9781557750785
Keywords: opec, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, oil exports, oil exporting countries
The economic policy choices available to oil exporting developing countries in deciding how best to implement their national priorities cover a wide range. They include both conventional policies (i.e., fore...

I Introduction »
Source: Oil Exporters' Economic Development in an Interdependent World
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Jahangir Amuzegar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 06 April 1983
ISBN: 9781557750785
Keywords: opec, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, oil exports, oil exporting countries
Not unpredictably, there is a complex energy bind as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The oil importing industrial countries have anchored their industries, their means of transportation, their...

Appendix I Hydrocarbon- and Mineral-Rich Countries, 2000–05 »
Source: Guide on Resource Revenue Transparency (2007)
Series: Manuals & Guides
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 October 2007
ISBN: 9781589064638
Keywords: fiscal policy, eiti, fiscal transparency, fiscal regime, resource-rich countries
Table 1. Hydrocarbon-Rich Countries, 2000–05 1, 2...

11 Stabilization and Savings Funds for Nonrenewable Resources: Experience and Fiscal Policy Implications »
Source: Fiscal Policy Formulation and Implementation in Oil-Producing Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): Jeffrey Davis , Annalisa Fedelino , and Rolando Ossowski
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 21 August 2003
ISBN: 9781589061750
Keywords: oil prices, fiscal policy, oil revenues, oil and gas, taxation
I. Introduction Acountry with large exhaustible resources such as oil can benefit substantially from them, but the revenues from exploiting these resources can pose challenges. Fisca...

Chapter 2. Country Overview »
Source: Lifting the Oil Curse : Improving Petroleum Revenue Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Harinder Malothra , Milan Cuc , Ulrich Bartsch , and Menachem Katz
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 January 2004
ISBN: 9781589063174
Keywords: fiscal policy, oil sector, oil companies, exchange rate, oil prices
The seven countries in the group of oil-producing African countries together produced an average of 3.8 million barrels of oil per day in 2001, equivalent to 5 percent of world oil production. Their total pr...