Trinidad and tobago : The Energy Boom and Proposals for a Sustainable Fiscal Policy.

Trinidad and Tobago is experiencing an energy boom stronger than the ones in 1970s and 1980s. The main fiscal policy challenge is to ensure that the increased revenues from the ultimately exhaustible resources are used in a way that protects the competitiveness of the nonenergy sector, builds assets...

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Awdur Corfforaethol: International Monetary Fund
Fformat: Cylchgrawn
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Cyfres:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/197
Mynediad Ar-lein:Full text available on IMF
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