Mauricio Soto

Mauricio Soto is a Deputy Division Chief in the Expenditure Policy Division of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. He focuses on a range of critical public finance issues, including social spending programs, government compensation and employment, and Sustainable Development Goals. At the IMF, he has worked on fiscal policy issues in over 20 countries in surveillance, lending, and capacity development activities. Before joining the IMF, he was a researcher on social insurance issues at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and The Urban Institute.

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• How to Build Public Support for Energy Subsidy and Pension Reforms
  • Published: April 16, 2025
  • Authors: Era Dabla-Norris, Davide Furceri, Mauricio Soto
  • Summary: Public approval is crucial for carrying out difficult reforms that can help countries lower debt and increase growth
• Where Are the World’s Fastest Roads?
  • Published: June 15, 2022
  • Authors: Mariano Moszoro, Mauricio Soto
  • Summary: IMF staff have developed a novel measure of road quality across 162 countries using Google Maps to determine the mean, or average, time it takes to drive between large cities that are at least 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart.
• Pension Shock
  • Published: August 24, 2017
  • Authors: Mauricio Soto
• Going Broke? Why Pension Reforms Are Needed in Emerging Economies
  • Published: April 6, 2012
  • Authors: Mauricio Soto

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