Looking Beyond the Fiscal : Do Oil Funds Bring Macroeconomic Stability? /

Oil funds have become increasingly popular in oil exporting countries during the recent surge in oil prices. However, the literature on the contribution is small, tends to focus narrowly on their fiscal benefits, and concludes that they are redundant of such funds-in other words, that well designed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shabsigh, Ghiath
Other Authors: Ilahi, Nadeem
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/096
Online Access:Full text available on IMF