Riding the Roller Coaster: Fiscal Policies of Nonrenewable Resource Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Pablo Lopez Murphy, Mauricio Villafuerte, Rolando Ossowski

November 1, 2010

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Pablo Lopez Murphy, Mauricio Villafuerte, and Rolando Ossowski. Riding the Roller Coaster: Fiscal Policies of Nonrenewable Resource Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed September 26, 2024

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Summary

This paper analyzes recent fiscal policies of nonrenewable resource exporting countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of sharp swings in resource prices. Fiscal policies were predominantly procyclical during the boom period 2003-08 but to significantly differing degrees within the sample. Countries that pursued more conservative fiscal policies during the boom were then able to implement countercyclical fiscal policies during the downturn; moreover, they reduced or maintained their fiscal vulnerability to resource shocks, while their long-term fiscal sustainability positions improved or were broadly unchanged. However, these dimensions of fiscal policy did not seem to be linked to fiscal rules or resource funds, as countries with such institutions displayed a broad range of fiscal responses to the recent cycle.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Fiscal stance, Fiscal sustainability

Keywords: Price, Resource, Resource revenue, Revenue, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

45
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Working Paper No. 2010/251
Stock No:

WPIEA2010251
ISBN:

9781455209514
ISSN:

1018-5941

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