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Author Melina, Giovanni, author.

Title Natural gas, public investment and debt sustainability in Mozambique / Giovanni Melina and Yi Xiong
Published [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (37 pages) : color illustrations
Series IMF working paper ; WP/13/261
IMF working paper ; WP/13/261.
Contents Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Natural Gas Sector in Mozamique: An Overview; Tables; Table 1. Countries with World's Largest Proven Natural Gas Reserves; III. Predicting LNG Revenue: The FARI model; Table 2. Representative EPCC Parameters; IV. Public Investment in Mozambique; Figures; Figure 1. LNG Sector Contribution to GDP and Fiscal Revenue; V. The Macroeconomic Effects of Investment Scaling-Ups; A. The DIGNAR Model; Figure 2. Mozambique: Public Capital Expenditure, 1991-2012; B. Scenarios of LNG production; C. Simulation results
Figure 3. LNG Revenue Simulations in the Baseline and Adverse Scenarios. Figure 4. Public Investment Scaling-Ups and Growth Outcomes.; Figure 5. Fiscal Consequences of Public Investment Scaling-Ups.; D. Structural reforms: the impact of governance and project selection; VI. Conclusion; Figure 6. The Effects of Improvements in Project Selection and Better Governance and Execution; References; Appendices; A. DIGNAR model details; Households; Firms; Government; Identities and market clearing conditions; B. First-order conditions; Demand functions for tradable and non-tradable goods
Labour supply in the tradable and non-tradable sectorOptimizing households' decisions; Rule-of-thumb households' decisions; Non-tradable sector's decisions; Tradable sector's decisions; C. Calibration; Table 3. Calibration
Summary "Mozambique has great potential in natural gas reserves and if liquefied/commercialized the sum of taxes and other fiscal revenue from natural gas will, at its peak, reach roughly one third of total fiscal revenue. Recent developments in the natural resource sector have triggered a fresh round of much needed infrastructure investment. This paper uses the DIGNAR model to simulate alternative public investment scaling-up plans in alternative LNG market scenarios. Results show that while a conservative approach, which simply awaits LNG revenues, would miss significant current growth opportunities, an aggressive approach would likely meet absorptive capacity constraints and imply a much bigger (and, in an adverse scenario, unsustainable) build-up of public debt. A gradual scaling up approach represents indeed a desirable path, as it allows anticipating some, though not all, of the LNG revenue and, even in an adverse scenario, keeping public debt at sustainable levels. Structural reforms affecting selection, governance and execution of public investment projects would significantly enhance the extent to which public capital is accumulated and impact non-resource growth and, ultimately, debt sustainability"--Abstract
Notes Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed December 26, 2013)
"African Department and Research Department"--Page 2 of pdf
"November 2013"--Page 2 of pdf
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Natural gas -- Mozambique
Public investments -- Mozambique
Public investments -- Mozambique -- Econometric models
Debts, Public -- Mozambique
Debts, Public -- Mozambique -- Econometric models
Debts, Public
Debts, Public -- Econometric models
Natural gas
Public investments
Public investments -- Econometric models
Mozambique
Form Electronic book
Author Xiong, Yi, 1910 March 10-1985 January 24, author
International Monetary Fund. African Department, issuing body.
International Monetary Fund. Research Department, issuing body.
ISBN 9781484326589
148432658X