IMF Staff Country Reports

Qatar: Selected Issues

April 2, 2015

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Qatar: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 24, 2024

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper discusses strengthening of fiscal policy and fiscal frameworks in Qatar. It proposes ways to ensure that sustainable fiscal policy is maintained in the medium to long term in Qatar. Fiscal policy remains sustainable, but given the large drop in oil prices, revenue-raising and expenditure-containing measures need to be considered to ensure intergenerational equity. Measures aimed at containing current spending, prioritizing capital expenditure, and raising nonhydrocarbon revenues would help bring fiscal policy back to consistency with intergenerational equity. Strengthening fiscal frameworks would help achieve the desirable fiscal policies.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Human capital, Inflation, Labor, Labor productivity, Prices, Production, Public financial management (PFM), Total factor productivity

Keywords: Budget planning and preparation, Country inflation variable, CR, Credit growth, Double digit inflation, Expenditure-containing measure, Global, Government expenditure, Growth performance, Human capital, Inflation, Inflation acceleration, ISCR, Labor productivity, Labor productivity, Lower-than-average productivity, Migration rate, Money growth trigger inflation, North Africa, Price inflation, Productivity, Qatar, Revenue, Total factor productivity, World inflation

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    41

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2015/087

  • Stock No:

    1QATEA2015002

  • ISBN:

    9781484309995

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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