Qatar: Selected Issues
January 31, 2012
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This Selected Issues paper focuses on fiscal policy and financial linkages across banks in Qatar. The paper presents main stylized facts on the evolution of revenues and expenditures and the relationship with oil prices. It analyzes the evolution of the fiscal policy stance in the run-up to and after the global financial crisis. The paper also assesses the current fiscal stance in the context of the authorities’ own objective of fully financing the budget from 2020 onward from its nonhydrocarbon revenues.
Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, National accounts, Personal income, Total expenditures
Keywords: bank, bank j, Commercial banks, country authorities, CR, Fiscal stance, Global, hydrocarbon revenue, IMF staff estimate, ISCR, Personal income, Qatar banks stability index, Qatari bank, revenue, Total expenditures
Pages:
25
Volume:
2012
DOI:
Issue:
019
Series:
Country Report No. 2012/019
Stock No:
1QTAEA2012002
ISBN:
9781463934507
ISSN:
1934-7685
