having contributed to it in addition to Vito Tanzi and Ved P. Gandhi. Furthermore, it has benefited from useful comments received from colleagues in other departments of the Fund. Of these contributors, Sheetal K. Chand, George F. Kopits, George von Furstenberg, Deena R. Khatkhate, and Vicente Galbis deserve special mention.The manuscript has been put into publishable form and guided through all stages of production by Ella H. Wright, with assistance from Paul E. Gleason. The Graphics Section of the Fund made a substantial contribution in the design and production of the volume.Special thanks are due to Sonia A. Piccinini and the secretaries of the Fiscal Affairs Department for numerous tasks cheerfully undertaken in connection with a succession of drafts which must have seemed interminable.vi