Solomon Islands: Selected Issues

March 8, 2018

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Solomon Islands: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper sets out options to demonstrate how the authorities could supplement their cash balance target and public debt limit with an anchor to help discipline annual budget decisions. The paper introduces the current fiscal framework and effective fiscal rules based on international experiences, including the characteristics of each rule. It also discusses the need for a new fiscal anchor, given high revenue volatility, high infrastructure needs, and the country’s exposure and vulnerability to natural disasters. Contingency warrants for unforeseen expenditures, including from natural disasters, should be included in the budget in line with international best practices. Furthermore, if a disaster does not occur, this allocation could be saved in a contingency fund for natural disasters, which would enable swift disbursement in the aftermath of the disaster. The fund would be set up once fiscal buffers have been rebuilt. The IMF Staff suggests a target for the overall fiscal deficit of 1.5 percent of gross domestic product as a possible fiscal anchor, which would strike a balance between safeguarding debt sustainability and addressing the severe infrastructure gap.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Infrastructure, National accounts, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending

Keywords: CR, GDP, Infrastructure, Infrastructure investment, Investment, Investment spending, Investment-growth linkage, ISCR, Pacific Islands, PFM, PFM reform, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending, Revenue, Revenue volatility

Publication Details

Pages:

25
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2018/073
Stock No:

1SLBEA2018002
ISBN:

9781484346174
ISSN:

1934-7685

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