Qatar : Selected Issues.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.

Series:

IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2024/044

IMF Staff Country Reports

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 pages)

Other Title:

Qatar

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2024.

Summary:

This Selected Issues paper aims to identify key reforms to accelerate Qatar’s economic transformation, estimate their impact, and shed light on the design of a comprehensive reform agenda. This paper starts by taking stock of Qatar’s progress in key reforms so far, identifying areas for further improvement, proposing structural reform measures, estimating the impact of key proposed reforms, and providing principles on the prioritization and sequencing of reforms. Qatar’s state-led, hydrocarbon intensive growth model has delivered rapid growth and substantial improvements in living standards over the past several decades. Guided by the National Vision 2030, an economic transformation is underway toward a more dynamic, diversified, knowledge-based, sustainable, and private sector-led growth model. The paper finds that labor market reforms could bring substantial benefits, particularly reforms related to increasing the share of skilled foreign workers. Certain reforms to further improve the business environment, such as improving access to finance, could also have large growth impact. A comprehensive, well-integrated, and properly sequenced reform package to exploit complementarities across reforms could boost Qatar’s potential growth significantly.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798400267390