IMF Staff Country Reports

Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

October 10, 2006

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Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

The paper reviews the background and the existing institutional framework for oil sector development in São Tomé and Príncipe and the challenges faced in implementing transparency rules in all oil-related transactions. It provides a quantitative analysis of the impact of oil sector development on government receipts, spending, and savings, and discusses the determinants of inflation from a statistical point of view. It also shows an analysis of the weak relationship between money growth and inflation.

Subject: Commodities, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Oil, Oil prices, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Prices, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, CR, Error-correction inflation equation, Exchange rate depreciation, Exchange rates, Funding amount, Gas and mining taxes, Inflation, ISCR, Money growth, Oil, Oil price, Oil prices, Sãotomean authorities, Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    94

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2006/329

  • Stock No:

    1STPEA2006001

  • ISBN:

    9781451835090

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685