Belize: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation
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Summary:
There is an urgent need to re-establish a viable external position through a comprehensive, swift, and sustained policy adjustment. The fiscal adjustment will need to rest on both wide-ranging tax revenue measures and substantial expenditure restraint, including a freeze of current expenditure. Executive Directors welcome the government’s decision to restructure the Development Finance Corporation. Existing import restrictions should be eliminated or converted into tariffs to improve resource allocation, increase revenue, and reduce administrative costs. Belize statistical information is inadequate to monitor macroeconomic developments sufficiently.
Series:
Country Report No. 2004/102
Subject:
Economic sectors External debt Foreign exchange Public debt Public sector Revenue administration
English
Publication Date:
April 16, 2004
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451805499/1934-7685
Stock No:
1BLZEA0022004
Pages:
50
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