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This resulted in a “currency mismatch” between dollar liabilities and
revenues
that were often denominated in local currencies.
Second, governments have to start running budget surpluses and use privatization to set aside
revenues
that can be invested to meet future claims.
To make matters worse, falling oil prices and attacks on pipelines imperil a hydrocarbon industry that provides 63% of government
revenues.
Beyond endangering lives, more frequent and stronger storms could cost many billions of dollars, owing to infrastructure damage and lost
revenues
from farming, fisheries, and tourism.
A Fiscal Fix for the GCCABU DHABI – Supported by strong oil
revenues
and spurred by unrest in neighboring countries, the Gulf oil exporters – especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain, which form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – have lately ramped up public social and investment spending.
Second, both government spending and growth in non-oil sectors are influenced by fluctuations in oil
revenues.
As it stands, the GCC’s aggregate fiscal break-even oil price (at which oil
revenues
are sufficient to cover government spending), currently around $75 per barrel, is below this year’s average Brent crude oil price of $108 per barrel.
The third consideration for managing public finances in oil-rich countries is that traditional fiscal indicators, which measure overall government
revenues
and expenditures, do not lend themselves to comprehensive assessment, and can mask underlying structural weaknesses.
A more useful approach would separate the oil variable from revenues, spending, and economic activity.
With energy
revenues
screeching to a halt, Putin’s regime will lose popularity.
Even those countries that are not actively engaged in a fiscal orgy are seeing their surpluses collapse and their deficits soar, mainly in the face of falling tax
revenues.
Financial and economic imbalance can lead to dangerous fiscal imbalance, as tax
revenues
plunge and social insurance and bailout expenditures rise.
But its
revenues
and expenditures were in part determined by a highly leveraged real-estate bubble.
He called for financial transfers from advanced to developing economies to compensate for displaced productive and export capacities (and lost tax revenues), and to enable recipient countries to overhaul those capacities to become more competitive.
The standard boom-and-bust cycle provides a plausible interpretation: incumbents could win elections only so long as commodity
revenues
remained high.
Despite falling revenues, both governments spared little effort to spend their way to victory.
These countries now must determine how to avoid the “resource curse” – an all-too-common affliction whereby rising resource
revenues
lead to volatility, rent seeking, and corruption, while spurring real exchange-rate appreciation and wage increases, thereby undermining other economic sectors’ competitiveness.
The key will be to capture the oil
revenues
and invest them wisely, thereby converting below-ground assets into above-ground assets that yield an adequate rate of return and stimulate economic development.
Infrastructure investment is down as well, with many high-speed railway projects on hold and local governments and special-purpose vehicles struggling to obtain financing amid tightening credit conditions and lower
revenues
from land sales.
As the elderly increasingly outnumber working-age people, pressure is building on the labor force, and tax revenues, needed to service government debt and fund public services and pension systems, are diminishing.
While state and local government cutbacks in spending and employment are ending as the recovery boosts their tax revenues, the fiscal drag at the federal level is strengthening.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the budget deficit is declining, and the primary surplus (net
revenues
minus interest payments) is growing.
With oil sales generating the bulk of government revenues, and with the public sector being the predominant employer, Saudi officials have long worried that the Kingdom’s lack of economic diversity could place at risk its long-term financial security.
First, the plan seeks to enhance the generation of non-oil revenues, by raising fees and tariffs on public services, gradually expanding the tax base (including through the introduction of a value added tax), and raising more income from a growing number of visitors to the Kingdom.
Since 2013, the US Congress has floated several reform proposals to increase
revenues
collected on the stock of foreign earnings.
Private investors have long been eager to invest in public infrastructure – such as transportation or energy – in exchange for a share of those projects’ future
revenues.
In late 2009, the president also approved the seventh National Finance Commission, which will allocate to the provinces a larger share of the
revenues
collected by the central government.
And, because tax revenues, too, will not recover, the gap will have to be bridged by fiscal austerity.
The international auctioning of emissions allowances and allowances in domestic emissions-trading schemes, a carbon tax,
revenues
from international transport, a surcharge on electricity transmission, and financial transaction taxes could generate as much as $220 billion per year in additional
revenues.
And the Macri government has created a plan to attract $12 billion per year in fossil-fuel investments, predicting that
revenues
from oil and gas exports will surpass those from agriculture – currently Argentina’s leading export sector – by 2027.
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