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Antigua and Barbuda: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund
This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that data for the first half of 2005 point to a widening fiscal deficit for Antigua and Barbuda. A combination of a reduction in capital spending and some improvement in revenues following a tightening of the concessions regime resulted in a closing of the primary deficit to 1½ percent of GDP in 2004. Revenues have performed well following the reintroduction of the personal income tax. The external current account deficit has narrowed to about 11 percent of GDP, financed by foreign direct investment.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; staff's GDP projection; staff appraisal; Policy development; private sector; government wish; government of Antigua and Barbuda; government hope; Arrears; Public sector; Civil service; Caribbean; Global
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Tax Incentives and Investment in the Eastern Caribbean
Mr. Sebastian Sosa
Tax incentives have been used extensively in the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) to promote investment. The associated revenue losses are large, and benefits in terms of new investment have been limited, raising doubts about the cost effectiveness of the tax incentive schemes. This paper examines the effects of incentives using the marginal effective tax rate approach (METR), adapting this methodology to the case of a small open economy where the marginal investor is a nonresident. The results show that METRs are high in the region; that there is a large dispersion in the size of METRs across financing source; and that METRs on investment are larger than the overall distortion on capital, with a substantial subsidy to domestic saving. In the presence of tax holidays-the most common incentive scheme in the region-the distortion on capital basically vanishes.
Keywords:
WP; rate of return; tax system
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Dominica: Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; capital expenditure; current account; foreign currency; Eastern Caribbean dollar; fund staff estimate; net credit; factor cost; ECCB note; ECCB loan; ECCB's net; Capital spending; Exports; Current spending; Current account balance; Caribbean
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Dominica: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, Financing Assurances Review, and Extension of Repurchase Expectations
International Monetary Fund
This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that Dominica is recovering from the aftermath of an economic and financial crisis in 2001–02 when output contracted by 10 percent. The reform strategy has been successful. Economic growth has recovered to more than 3 percent a year and is set to record the second straight year of above average growth in 2005. Inflation declined in 2004 and remains subdued in 2005 despite the higher energy prices. Reflecting strong fiscal consolidation and a collaborative debt restructuring agreement, public finances are now on a firmer footing.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; adjustment program; PRGF arrangement; public finance; PRGF; U.S. dollar; private sector; debt restructuring process; banking system; Fiscal stance; Credit; Commercial banks; Caribbean
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Dominica: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Preparation Status Report
International Monetary Fund
This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Preparation Status Report for Dominica. The paper discusses that the government of the Commonwealth of Dominica has advanced its sectoral strategy to enhance growth in several dimensions. With technical assistance from the World Bank, the government has been reviewing its Electricity Supply Act to modify it and allow the exploitation of geothermal energy, which potentially can be exported to neighboring islands. The government has also made progress in the area of social protection.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government strategy; government; reform agenda; government of the Commonwealth of Dominica; Poverty reduction strategy; Structural reforms
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Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Staff Report for the 2005 Regional Discussions
International Monetary Fund
This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic activity in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) has accelerated since mid-2003 owing to an acceleration of activity in the tourism and construction sectors. Inflation has been stable and monetary aggregates have been expanding rapidly, reflecting continued growth in the demand for money and confidence in the banking system and the quasi-currency board arrangement. Against this background, Executive Directors have called for strengthening fiscal consolidation, lowering the debt ratios, and ensuring the consistency of fiscal policies with the currency board arrangement.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; debt; ECCU government; public sector debt stock; ECCU country; private sector; fiscal policy; exchange rate; U.S. dollar; labor market; Public sector; Fiscal stance; Natural disasters; Caribbean; Global
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Dominica: Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
International Monetary Fund
The staff report for the Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility on Dominica highlights economic developments and policies. Import growth has been robust on account of the economic recovery but the impact on the current account has been partially offset by increased tourism receipts. The efforts to reform the tax system and strengthen social security are necessary to place Dominica’s public finances over the long term on a firmer footing.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; PRGF; executive board review; monitoring capability; adjustment program; debt exchange offer; debt restructuring process; Debt restructuring; Credit; Commercial banks; Caribbean
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Stabilization, Debt, and Fiscal Policy in the Caribbean
Ms. Ratna Sahay
Although Caribbean countries have been largely successful in bringing annual inflation down to single digits in recent years-regardless of their exchange rate regime-their growth rates have been disappointing and their public debt has risen rapidly. By 2003, 14 of 15 Caribbean countries ranked in the top 30 of the world's highly indebted emerging market countries. Most of the increase in their public debt is accounted for by a deterioration in primary fiscal balances that has been largely due to a sharp increase in expenditures rather than a fall in revenues. With the countries of the region now increasingly facing unsustainable debt positions, innovative ways need to be found to raise their economic growth rates and generate fiscal savings to reverse the debt buildup, and to maintain or raise their current living standards.
Keywords:
WP; country authorities; exchange rate regime; Caribbean country; policy stance; government expenditure; real GDP
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Macroeconomic Implications of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean
Mr. Tobias N. Rasmussen
Each year natural disasters affect about 200 million people and cause about $50 billion in damage. This paper compares the incidence of natural disasters across countries along several dimensions and finds that the relative costs tend to be far higher in developing countries than in advanced economies. The analysis shows that small island states are especially vulnerable, with the countries of the Eastern Caribbean standing out as among the most disaster-prone in the world. Natural disasters are found to have had a discernible macroeconomic impact, including large effects on fiscal and external balances, pointing to an important role for precautionary measures.
Keywords:
WP; ECCU country; country; GDP; government; market; price; Natural Disasters; Eastern Caribbean; Developing Countries; ECCU insurance market; countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; island state; market insurance; Insurance; Personal income; Fiscal stance; Caribbean; Global
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Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper on the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) underlies key features of business cycles. To obtain new measures of classical and growth cycles, simple rules were applied to date turning points in the classical business cycle, and a recently developed frequency domain filter was used to estimate the growth cycle. At the regional level, the ECCU countries are facing two shocks, i.e., the depreciation of the U.S. dollar and the depreciation of the Dominican Republic’s peso. The countries of the ECCU have experienced modest erosion in their price and nonprice competitiveness.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; ECCU country; bank; insurance market; growth cycle; public debt to GDP ratio; ECCU bank; Natural disasters; Real exchange rates; Business cycles; Tourism; Caribbean; Global