Occasional Papers

The Fiscal Dimensions of Adjustment in Low-Income Countries

By Sanjeev Gupta, Claire Liuksila, Henri Lorie, Walter Mahler, Karim A. Nashashibi

June 16, 1992

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Sanjeev Gupta, Claire Liuksila, Henri Lorie, Walter Mahler, and Karim A. Nashashibi The Fiscal Dimensions of Adjustment in Low-Income Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

A strengthened fiscal position is at the core of most economic adjustment programs supported by IMF lending, especially for the poorer countries that draw on the IMF's structural adjustment facilities. This paper reviews developments in 23 countries and evaluates their experience with fiscal and structural adjustment, including their efforts to design social safety nets to cushion the effects of adjustment.

Subject: Economic sectors, Expenditure, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Public enterprises, Public sector, Revenue administration, Tax administration core functions

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Caribbean, Consolidated government, ESAF arrangement, ESAF country, ESAF framework, ESAF program, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal year April-March, Global, IMF staff estimate, Import tariff structure, Middle East, OP, Public enterprises, Public sector, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tax administration core functions

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    65

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Occasional Paper No. 1992/010

  • Stock No:

    S095EA0000000

  • ISBN:

    9781557752291

  • ISSN:

    0251-6365

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