TY - BOOK ID - 84657276 TI - In the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis : Adjusting to Lower Revenue of the Southern African Customs Union in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland AU - Fontaine, Thomson. AU - Benicio, Dalmacio. AU - Mongardini, Joannes. AU - Verdier, Genevieve. AU - Pastor Campos, Gonzalo. PY - 2011 SN - 1462314236 1455284521 146234349X PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Fiscal Policy KW - Debt KW - Debt Management KW - Sovereign Debt KW - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures KW - Other Public Investment and Capital Stock KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Expenditure KW - Fiscal consolidation KW - Public debt KW - Revenue administration KW - Public investment spending KW - Fiscal policy KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Debts, Public KW - Revenue KW - Public investments KW - Botswana UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84657276 AB - The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is facing its biggest challenge in its 100 years of existence. The global economic crisis has significantly reduced its revenue outlook, which is having a disproportionate impact on its smaller member countries, and which calls for an appropriate policy response. This paper discusses specifically the implications for Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland, and provides recommendations regarding the proper fiscal response by these countries to the decline in SACU revenue. ER -