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020 |a 9781475571455 
245 0 0 |a Qatar  |b Selected Issues 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2013 
300 |a 51 pages 
651 4 |a Qatar 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Budget Systems 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Financial institutions 
653 |a Capital market 
653 |a Fiscal Policy 
653 |a Budget planning and preparation 
653 |a Fiscal policy 
653 |a General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) 
653 |a Asset and liability management 
653 |a Budgeting 
653 |a Liquidity 
653 |a National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General 
653 |a Liquidity; Economics 
653 |a Expenditure 
653 |a Financial markets 
653 |a Investments: General 
653 |a Expenditures, Public 
653 |a Budget 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Public financial management (PFM) 
653 |a Budgeting & financial management 
653 |a National Budget 
653 |a Investment & securities 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Liquidity management 
653 |a Finance: General 
653 |a Portfolio Choice 
653 |a Government securities 
653 |a Investment Decisions 
710 2 |a International Monetary Fund  |b Middle East and Central Asia Dept 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Staff Country Reports 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781475571455.002 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2013/015/002.2013.issue-015-en.xml?cid=40250-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a Qatar has recently taken steps toward introducing a medium-term budget framework (MTBF) to enhance the predictability of spending decisions in the country. However, implementing medium-term fiscal planning requires formal procedural fiscal rules and parallel efforts to enhance the credibility of the annual budget. Given Qatar’s significant exposure to hydrocarbon price movements and its long-lasting hydrocarbon reserves, such fiscal rules would need a certain degree of flexibility and, at the same time, should be set to maintain consistency with long-term fiscal sustainability