Papua New Guinea: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

November 10, 2004

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Papua New Guinea: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper reviews the path of Papua New Guinea’s external debt over the last decade. It explains the underlying macroeconomic framework to better understand the dynamics behind the external debt profile, and assesses the relative scale of the public external debt burden. It addresses the issue of public debt sustainability over the medium term. This paper also summarizes the government’s ongoing reform effort aimed at reducing the size of the civil service and the payroll.

Subject: Economic sectors, External debt, Income and capital gains taxes, Mining sector, Public debt, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Association of Superannuation Funds of PNG, CR, Debt ratio, Export duty, Global, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax, ISCR, Mining sector, Tariffs, Tax rate, U.S. dollar, Withholding tax

Publication Details

Pages:

60
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2004/356
Stock No:

1PNGEA0022004
ISBN:

9781451831696
ISSN:

1934-7685

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