Volume/Issue: 1999/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Parthasarathi Shome
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
1999
ISBN: 9781451843729
From the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Latin American tax policy provided rich lessons for other reforming countries. Meaningful innovations led also to perceptible revenue gains. Later in the 1990s, tax policies began...
Volume/Issue: 2015/30
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Gabriel Di Bella
,
Lawrence Norton
,
Joseph Ntamatungiro
,
Sumiko Ogawa
,
Issouf Samaké
, and
Marika Santoro
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
February
2015
ISBN: 9781484365366
The oil price decline creates an opportunity to dismantle energy subsidies, which escalated with high oil prices. This paper assesses energy subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean-about 1.8 percent of GDP in...
Volume/Issue: 1996/4
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Miguel Savastano
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
1996
ISBN: 9781451841992
This paper examines the pattern of dollarization in Latin America, focusing on the experience of five countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) during 1970-1993. It presents evidence on the relative...
Volume/Issue: 1999/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Parthasarathi Shome
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
1999
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451843729.001
ISBN: 9781451843729
From the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Latin American tax policy provided rich lessons for other reforming countries. Meaningful innovations led also to perceptible revenue gains. Later in the 1990s, tax policies began...
Volume/Issue: 2015/30
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Gabriel Di Bella
,
Lawrence Norton
,
Joseph Ntamatungiro
,
Sumiko Ogawa
,
Issouf Samaké
, and
Marika Santoro
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
February
2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484365366.001
ISBN: 9781484365366
The oil price decline creates an opportunity to dismantle energy subsidies, which escalated with high oil prices. This paper assesses energy subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean-about 1.8 percent of GDP in...
Volume/Issue: 2008/71
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Giorgio Brosio
, and
Ehtisham Ahmad
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
March
2008
ISBN: 9781451869330
A weakness of decentralization and overall tax reforms in Latin America is the lack of attention to adequate taxation at the subnational government. A reliance on shared taxes with extensive earmarking leads to wea...
Volume: 55
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
18
April
2008
ISBN: 9781589067257
In this issue, John T. Cuddington and Daniel Jerrett from the Colorado School of Mines examine whether metals prices are in a "super cycle" upswing driven by intensive economic growth in China, in particular. Using...
Volume/Issue: 36/14
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
December
2007
ISBN: 9781451938630
Rising Energy Costs, Liberia to get debt relief, Climate Change, World Economic Outlook, European Economic Outlook, Latin American Economic Outlook, Mideast-Central Asia Economic Outlook, Technical Assistance, Rese...
Volume/Issue: 2011/86
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Yongzhen Yu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2011
ISBN: 9781455226023
Major mining commodity prices are inherently volatile and cyclical. High levels of investment in China have been a key driver in the strong world demand for minerals and metals over the past decade. The urbanizatio...
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
04
May
1999
ISBN: 9781557757883
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity, once again, to join a discussion at the IMF on the important topic of income distribution. This issue continues to command the close attention of policymake...
