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Review of the Experience with Oil Stabilization and Savings Funds in Selected Countries

By Ugo Fasano-Filho

June 1, 2000

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Summary

The main purposes of this paper are to review the operational modalities and experience of oil funds currently in place in Norway, Chile (copper), the State of Alaska, Venezuela, Kuwait, and Oman, and to draw some preliminary conclusions on their contribution to enhance fiscal management. The outcome so far of their experience has been mixed, with differences among countries reflecting the variety of objectives attached to the funds, the challenges in adhering to established rules, the institutional set-up. and the soundness of the overall fiscal discipline in each country (or state).

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Commodities, Expenditure, Oil, Oil prices, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Prices, Public financial management (PFM), Taxes

Keywords: Budget planning and preparation, Chile’s copper fund, Dividend program, Fund, Fund staff estimate, Gas and mining taxes, Oil, Oil exporting countries, Oil prices, Oil savings fund, Oil stabilization fund, Savings fund, SGRF assets, Stabilization fund, Stabilization objective, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    20

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/112

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1122000

  • ISBN:

    9781451853599

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941