IMF Staff Country Reports

Qatar: Selected Issues

January 16, 2013

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Summary

Qatar has recently taken steps toward introducing a medium-term budget framework (MTBF) to enhance the predictability of spending decisions in the country. However, implementing medium-term fiscal planning requires formal procedural fiscal rules and parallel efforts to enhance the credibility of the annual budget. Given Qatar’s significant exposure to hydrocarbon price movements and its long-lasting hydrocarbon reserves, such fiscal rules would need a certain degree of flexibility and, at the same time, should be set to maintain consistency with long-term fiscal sustainability.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Government securities, Liquidity, Liquidity management, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Bond market, Budget, Budget planning and preparation, Central bank, CR, Fixed income, Global, Government securities, ISCR, Liquidity, Liquidity management, Liquidity management framework, Liquidity surplus, Market infrastructure, Qatar, QCB liquidity forecasting model, Securities markets, T-bill auction

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    51

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2013/015

  • Stock No:

    1QATEA2013002

  • ISBN:

    9781475571455

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685