Malta: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation

September 3, 2003

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Malta: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

Malta has advanced toward accession to the European Union (EU), and its progress in international competition and fiscal deficit reduction has contributed to rapid growth and enhanced the economy's resilience to economic shocks. Executive Directors stressed the need for fiscal consolidation, strengthening of public finances, monetary, and exchange rate policies and the banking system. They welcomed the authorities' efforts in antimoney laundering and the combating of the financing of terrorism, and urged the authorities to criminalize the financing of terrorism.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Labor, Public debt, Public employment, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Budget planning and preparation, CR, EU referendum, Europe, Exchange rate, GDP, Global, ISCR, North Africa, Public employment, Q1, Routine cash management operation, Staff appraisal, Trade pattern

Publication Details

Pages:

57
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/276
Stock No:

1MLTEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451826609
ISSN:

1934-7685

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