Trinidad and Tobago : : Selected Issues

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (27 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.1/52
• Soggetto topico: Banks and Banking; Finance: General; Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; Public Finance; Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices; Fiscal Policy; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages; Monetary Policy; Central Banks and Their Policies; Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions; Banking; Energy industries & utilities; Finance; Monetary economics; Public finance & taxation; Oil prices; Energy pricing; Fiscal sustainability; Monetary transmission mechanism; Open market operations; Energy prices; Fiscal policy; Monetary policy; Central banks; Expenditures, Public; Banks and banking; Liquidity; Economics
• Soggetto geografico: Trinidad and Tobago Economic conditions Statistics; Trinidad and Tobago
• Note generali: "January 2007."; Prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with this member country.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; I. Medium-Term Fiscal Sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago; A. Introduction; B. Defining Fiscal Sustainability; C. Assumptions; Tables; I.1. Baseline Scenario Assumptions; I.2. Government Take; D. Fiscal Sustainability: Baseline; E. Sensitivity Analysis and Stress Tests; I.3. Sensitivity Analysis for Sustainable Nonenergy Deficit; I.4. Best and Worst Case Scenarios-Sustainable Nonenergy Deficit for FY 2005/06; F. Conclusions; II. The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Trinidad and Tobago; A. Introduction; B. The Trinidad and Tobago Economy ; C. The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Trinidad and TobagoII.1. Banking Sector Asset Composition; D. Strengthening the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy in Trinidad and Tobago; E. Conclusions
• Sommario/riassunto: This Selected Issues paper analyzes medium-term fiscal sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago. The paper focuses on the challenge of distributing the nonrenewable resource wealth across generations. Its recommendations are geared toward the goal of intergenerational distribution and therefore focus on the transformation of the natural resource wealth into other assets. The paper reviews the main aspects of the monetary transmission mechanism in Trinidad and Tobago, and also offers some suggestions to improve the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission.
• Titolo autorizzato: Trinidad and Tobago
• ISBN: 1-4552-8527-7; 1-4519-9465-6; 1-283-57037-8; 9786613882820; 1-4519-9907-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788692303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; ; No. 2007/008