Sao Tomé and Príncipe: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
August 26, 1996
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This Selected Issues Paper and Statistical Appendix presents a summary of the tax system as of December 1995 of Sao Tomé and Príncipe. It describes the exchange and payments system. The paper highlights that the currency of Sao Tome and Príncipe is the Sao Tomé and Príncipe dobra. The official exchange rate is determined daily as an average of exchange rates in the bureau de change, parallel market, and a commercial bank. Foreign exchange transactions are divided into three categories, namely import payments, transactions in foreign checks, and collection of export proceeds.
Subject: Asset and liability management, Balance of payments, Current account deficits, Debt relief, Expenditure, Government debt management, Health, Population and demographics, Public expenditure review, Public financial management (PFM)
Keywords: cocoa export, cocoa production, CR, Current account deficits, Debt relief, foreign financing, Government debt management, infant mortality rate, ISCR, Population age structure, Public expenditure review, São Tomé and Príncipe authorities
Pages:
60
Volume:
1996
DOI:
Issue:
070
Series:
Country Report No. 1996/070
Stock No:
1STPEA0011996
ISBN:
9781451834963
ISSN:
1934-7685
