Zambia: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Zambia

June 17, 2008

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Zambia: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Zambia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

The fiscal stance has been more expansionary in 2008, but there should be no need for net domestic financing. The new fiscal regime for mining increases the average effective tax rate from a level that was significantly below that of other mining countries. The monetary program aims to reduce annual inflation to 7 percent in 2008. The authorities intend to address the challenge of coordinating fiscal and monetary policies to enable the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) to improve liquidity management. Structural policies will complement the medium-term macroeconomic framework.

Subject: Central banks, Economic sectors, External debt, International reserves, Mining sector, Oil prices, Prices, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Authority, CR, Global, International reserves, ISCR, Mining sector, Nonfood price inflation, Oil price assumption, Oil prices, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, Price, Southern Africa, Zambian authorities

Publication Details

Pages:

79
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2008/187
Stock No:

1ZMBEA2008004
ISBN:

9781451841350
ISSN:

1934-7685

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