Guatemala: Fiscal Transparency Evaluation

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Posted by Mario Pessoa[1]

The International Monetary Fund has published a Fiscal Transparency Evaluation (FTE) report for Guatemala.

In many areas Guatemala performs well against the standards set by the IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code. Some eight of the Code’s 36 principles are rated as either “good” or “advanced,” 17 principles are rated as “basic,” and in ten areas the basic requirements of the Code are “not met.” One dimension was not assessed, as there are no existing public-private partnership contracts in Guatemala.

The report’s key findings under the Code’s three pillars are:

The report both in Spanish and English can be found at: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=44440.0

[1] Mario Pessoa is Deputy Division Chief, PFM 2 Division, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF.

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