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Dominican Republic: Assessing the Implications of a retail Central Bank Digital Currency (Phase 1 and 2)
Anca Paduraru, Marco Gross, Paavo A Miettinen, Karl Driessen, Chacon Rey, Maria Fernanda, Kristel Poh, Stephanie Forte, and Victor Budau
The mission helped the BCRD to assess a CBDC's potential macro-financial, legal, and financial integrity implications, and shared lessons from other countries' CBDC and digital money projects, technology considerations, practices for stakeholder engagement, and how CBDC can increase financial inclusion, among others. The mission advised the BCRD to continue the exploration of macro-financial implications of a CBDC, conduct the legal framework revisions should a positive decision of CBDC be taken, assess risks to financial integrity once a firmer design choice is made, and build up technology knowledge and capacity meanwhile.
Keywords:
CBDC; digital money; macro-financial; legal; payments; digitalization
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Rwanda: Technical Assistance on Public Debt Projections and Analysis with the Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT)
Ehsan Ebrahimy and Leonardo Martinez
This Technical Assistance followed a request by the Debt Management Directorate of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) of Rwanda to develop the capacity in public debt projections and analysis. The development and discussion of DDT scenarios by officials contributed to a better understanding of debt projections across the MINECOFIN.
Keywords:
Macroeconomic Framework; Public Debt Projections; Public Debt Dynamics Tool; Dynamics tool; public debt projection; dynamics Tool; MINECOFIN official; DDT template; Debt sustainability analysis; Government debt management; Government debt planning
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Seychelles: Government Finance Statistics and Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
A diagnostic technical assistance mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA) visited Seychelles during April 8-19, 2024, to support the authorities in improving the compilation and dissemination of government finance statistics (GFS) and public sector debt statistics (PSDS). The mission assisted the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade, and the National Bureau of Statistics to broaden the institutional coverage of fiscal statistics through hands-on training and methodological guidance in deriving a draft public sector institutional table. The mission also supported the authorities in reviewing data sources, compilation, and dissemination practices for GFS and PSDS, as well as in streamlining working files for high frequency and annual fiscal statistics. This effort will help the authorities reduce statistical discrepancies and resume the submission of GFS data to STA.
Keywords:
Chart of accounts; central government; general government; government finance statistics; integrated financial management information system; public debt; public sector debt statistics; mission to Seychelles; International Monetary Fund's mission; compilation tool; GFS statement; compilation issue
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Sierra Leone: Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment
Bryn Battersby, Isabela F Duarte, Phyllis N Makau, June Nyakahuma, Nompumelelo Radebe, and Ilyas Tufan
The assistance assessed how climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation responses are addressed in the public investment cycle using the Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA). Sierra Leone was found to perform moderately well in some areas of the Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA), but there are key gaps in other areas, often linked to weaknesses in the underlying public investment management framework. The assistance found that addressing these persisting core public investment management challenges is a prerequisite for effective climate-sensitive public investment management.
Keywords:
Public investment management; C-PIMA; climate change; Green PFM; management challenge; management framework; climate sensitivity; management policy; portfolio management practice; Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA); Public investment spending
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COLOMBIA: Autonomous Committee for the Fiscal Rule Macroeconomic Framework Technical Assistance: Scoping Mission Report
José Federico Geli and Juan S Corrales
This note summarizes the main findings and action plan of the IMF Technical Assistance (TA) Scoping Mission to support the Colombian Autonomous Committee for the Fiscal Rule (CARF) in building capacity on macroeconomic forecasting and analysis. The TA was requested by the CARF to develop a macroeconomic projections tool, integrate its current satellite fiscal forecasting models, institutionalize the use of the tool, and develop a methodology to independently assess macro-fiscal forecasts produced by the Ministry of Finance.
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Macroeconomic Framework; Financial Programming and Policies; Forecasting and Policy Analysis; Comprehensive Adaptive Expectations Model (CAEM); action plan of the IMF; policy analysis; CARF staff; satellite model; MoF projection; Macro-fiscal framework; Fiscal rules; Potential output; Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts
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High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report: Mauritania: Tax Policy Diagnostic
Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, Thomas Benninger, Jean-François Brun, Emilie Caldeira, and Fayçal Sawadogo
The IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department has been working with Mauritania on capacity building in tax policy. Mauritania has recently created a tax policy unit and adopted a new General Tax Code in 2019 with a corporate income tax and a semi-dual approach to personal income taxation. However, there is significant scope to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of income taxes, including due to the proliferation of wasteful tax exemptions. The fast urbanization also calls for a review of recurrent property taxation. The formalization of property rights requires a temporary suspension of the excessive registration fees. Consumption taxation can also be improved by broadening the tax base, for example, by abolishing regressive value-added tax exemptions or by imposing excise taxes on imported used vehicles. Finally, several recommendations aim to support the reform of the Mining Code, such as introducing some progressivity, prohibiting the negotiation of any tax parameters, and strengthening the principle of ring-fencing.
Keywords:
direct taxation; indirect taxation; CIT; VAT; property tax; mining taxation; tax credits; tax policy diagnostic; consumption taxation; IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department; regressive value-added tax exemption; mining tax regime; Income and capital gains taxes; Corporate income tax; Global
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Government Finance Statistics Mission: Cambodia
Irina Dubinina, Deon F Tanzer, and Nadine Abou-Khaled
A technical assistance mission from the IMF's Statistics Department visited Cambodia during April 10-21, 2023, to support the authorities in continuing to improve the compilation and dissemination of government finance statistics (GFS) and public sector debt statistics (PSDS). The mission assisted the authorities to expand the coverage of fiscal statistics to the broader perimeter of Government, compiled experimental statistical balance sheet data for the budgetary central government and investigated ways to improve the consistency and quality of GFS data. The mission also provided training on how to compile functional expenditures of government and updated the country's action plan to improve fiscal data.
Keywords:
Cambodia; General Government; Government Finance Statistics; Public Debt; Public Sector Debt Statistics; government finance statistics mission; BCG balance sheet data; GFS data; IMF's Statistics Department; dissemination of government finance statistics; Financial statements; Currencies; Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts
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Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission: Lao People's Democratic Republic
Deon F Tanzer
A technical assistance mission from the IMF's Statistics Department visited Lao People's Democratic Republic during May 11-12, 2023, to support the authorities in continuing to improve the compilation and dissemination of public sector debt statistics (PSDS). The mission assisted the authorities to compile annual PSDS and also discussed the correct recording of Lao PDR's "arrears clearance bonds."
Keywords:
Lao PDR; General Government; Government Finance Statistics; GFSM 2014; Fiscal Rules; Public Debt; Public Sector Debt Statistics; IMF's Statistics Department; clearance bond; MS Excel file; debt securities data; public sector debt statistics mission; Bonds