02360cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013185 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475535563 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Berg, Andrew. Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries / Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, Susan Yang, Luis-Felipe Zanna. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (48 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Natural resource revenues provide a valuable source to finance public investment in developing countries, which frequently face borrowing constraints and tax revenue mobilization problems. This paper develops a dynamic stochastic small open economy model to analyze the macroeconomic effects of investing natural resource revenues, making explicit the role of pervasive features in these countries including public investment inefficiency, absorptive capacity constraints, Dutch disease, and financing needs to sustain capital. Revenue exhaustibility raises medium-term issues of how to sustain capital built during a windfall, while revenue volatility raises short-term concerns about macroeconomic instability. Using the model, country applications show how combining public investment with a resource fund---a sustainable investing approach---can help address the macroeconomic problems associated with both exhaustibility and volatility. The applications also demonstrate how the model can be used to determine the appropriate magnitude of the investment scaling-up (accounting for the financing needs to sustain capital) and the adequate size of a stabilization fund (buffer). Mode of access: Internet Portillo, Rafael. Yang, Susan. Zanna, Luis-Felipe. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/274 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/274/001.2012.issue-274-en.xml IMF e-Library