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Cover Policy Papers
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International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department

2023 HANDBOOK OF IMF FACILITIES FOR LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

Keywords:
transparency policy; financing assessment; policy consultation meeting; poverty reduction strategy paper; Credit
Cover IMF Working Papers
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Francesco Grigoli
,
Josef Platzer
, and
Robin Tietz
Keywords:
Productivity; Aging; Income inequality
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Mr. Emmanuel Mathias
and
Adrian Wardzynski
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AML framework; predicate offense; tax authorities; AML measure; FATF recommendation; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Money laundering; Tax return filing compliance; Global
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Mr. Serhan Cevik
Keywords:
credit card transactions; vaccination deployment; COVID-19; Vaccination; Baltics
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
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Mr. Yan Carriere-Swallow
,
Nelnan Fidèle Koumtingué
, and
Mr. Sebastian Weber
Keywords:
inflation dynamics; monetary policy's ability; Inflation; Sub-Saharan Africa; Global
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Shinya Kotera
and
Ms. TengTeng Xu
Keywords:
upside scenario; Structural reforms; COVID-19; Productivity; Labor markets; Growth accounting
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Jordan: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Financial System Stability Assessment
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
The banking sector dominates Jordan’s financial system, and its strength is essential to support macroeconomic stability and the peg to the U.S. dollar. The authorities have implemented measures to enhance the system’s resilience and oversight since the 2008–09 FSAP, allowing it to withstand large shocks (Global Financial Crisis, Arab Spring, war in Syria and influx of refugees, COVID-19). Global growth headwinds, high energy and food prices as well as sharply rising interest rates are pressuring nonfinancial sector balance sheets.
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Low for (Very) Long? A Long-Run Perspective on r* across Advanced Economies
Francesco Grigoli
,
Josef Platzer
, and
Robin Tietz
We provide a long-run perspective on neutral interest rates with new estimates for 16 advanced economies since the 1870s using the Laubach and Williams approach. Our estimates differ substantially from commonly used proxies. We find that, while cross-country heterogeneity was significant in the past, since the 1980s the decline has been common to many countries. Traditional determinants such as population aging and productivity growth are strongly correlated with the changes in neutral rates, while others like the relative price of capital and inequality exhibit weak relationships with r*. We also find that neutral rates co-vary negatively with public debt-to-GDP ratios.
Keywords:
neutral rate; old-age dependency ratio; time series; neutral interest rates; coefficient estimate; cited estimation approach; estimation procedure; Real interest rates; Capital account; Aging; Output gap; Global
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Leveraging Anti-money Laundering Measures to Improve Tax Compliance and Help Mobilize Domestic Revenues
Mr. Emmanuel Mathias
and
Adrian Wardzynski
The paper advocates leveraging anti-money laundering (AML) measures to enhance tax compliance, tackle tax crimes, and, in turn, help mobilize domestic revenues. While AML measures have already been deployed to improve tax compliance, including during the European debt crisis, the benefits that such measures could bring to the integrity of the tax system are yet to be fully realized. In recent years, the relevance of AML measures for tax purposes resurfaced in public discourse in light of numerous data leaks that provided ample evidence of the closely intertwined nature of tax crimes and money laundering. There might now be the right political momentum for greater utilization of AML measures given post-pandemic calls for a more progressive tax system, elevated sovereign debt burdens, a challenging global economic outlook, and widespread cost-of-living crisis. In this context, the IMF has stressed the importance of rebuilding fiscal buffers, as countries with more fiscal room are better placed to weather the economic slowdown and protect households and businesses.
Keywords:
Tax crimes; Anti-money laundering; Predicate offenses; AML measure; tax purpose; AML enforcement; tax cooperation; tax criminal; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Money laundering; Tax return filing compliance; Tax evasion; Global