Author/Editor: Paolo Dudine, Klaus-Peter Hellwig, Samir Jahan.

Release Date:July, 2020

We estimate the additional health spending necessary to treat COVID-19 patients. We expand a Susceptible Infected Recovered model to project the number of people requiring hospitalization, use more...

Author/Editor: Victor Duarte Lledo, Paolo Dudine, Luc Eyraud, Adrian Peralta-Alva.

Release Date:March, 2018

This note provides guidance on how to select fiscal rules in a wide range of economies, including advanced, emerging market, and developing economies. The principles and methods discussed are more...

Author/Editor: Paolo Dudine, João Tovar Jalles.

Release Date:January, 2017

In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced, emerging and low-income) for the period 1980–2014. By means of more...

Release Date:March, 2010

Low-income countries were hit especially hard by sharp increases in world food and fuel prices in 2007-08 and the global financial crisis that followed. In response, the International Monetary Fund more...

Author/Editor: Jan Kees Martijn, Markus Berndt, Abu Shonchoy, Paolo Dudine.

Release Date:October, 2008

This paper studies the spending and absorption of aid in PRGF-supported programs, verifies whether the use aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyzes how considerations about more...

Author/Editor: Helaway Tadesse, Mark Lewis, Jörg Zeuner, James John, Luzmaria Monasi, Paolo Dudine.

Release Date:July, 2006

This paper examines the impact of the 2003-05 oil price increase on the balance of payments positions and IMF financing needs of low-income country oil importers. It finds that stronger exports more...