Qatar: Selected Issues

May 6, 2014

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Qatar: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper assesses efficiency of Qatar public investment. It discusses the trends in public capital spending and the rationale for improving public investment efficiency. The paper outlines three alternative methods for analyzing efficiency, and presents the main results. The results suggest that the efficiency of Qatar public investment spending is broadly comparable to GCC peers, but could be improved further. It is also concluded that strengthening fiscal institutions, particularly with an integrated public investment management process and a medium-term fiscal policy framework, is the key for improving public investment efficiency in Qatar.

Subject: Banking, Capital spending, Early warning systems, Expenditure, Financial crises, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending

Keywords: Asset, Asset price shock, Capital spending, Construction cost, Cost, Coverage ratio, CR, Credit risk, Crisis risk model, Early warning systems, Global, Implementation risk, Investment, Investment efficiency, ISCR, Labor intensity, Management process, Price index, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending, Qatar, Qatar economy, Risk, Risk premium

Publication Details

Pages:

30
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2014/109
Stock No:

1QATEA2014002
ISBN:

9781484368930
ISSN:

1934-7685

Notes

Also available in Arabic

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