TY - BOOK ID - 84540820 TI - Currency Demand, the Underground Economy, and, Tax Evasion—The Case of Guyana PY - 2003 SN - 1462322867 1452774528 1281603791 9786613784483 145189063X PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Money and Monetary Policy KW - Taxation KW - Economics: General KW - Economywide Country Studies: Latin America KW - Caribbean KW - Informal Economy KW - Underground Econom KW - Monetary Systems KW - Standards KW - Regimes KW - Government and the Monetary System KW - Payment Systems KW - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General KW - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions KW - Tax Evasion and Avoidance KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Monetary economics KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Informal economy KW - Currencies KW - Average effective tax rate KW - Personal income KW - Tax evasion KW - Economic sectors KW - Money KW - Tax policy KW - National accounts KW - Revenue administration KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Tax administration and procedure KW - Income KW - Guyana UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84540820 AB - The persistence in Guyana of a substantial underground economy is an important consequence of economic and social policy over 1964-2000. The paper attempts to estimate the magnitude of, and changes to the underground economy in Guyana, as well as its adverse effect on tax collection, during this period. ER -