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MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE: The Case of Chile
Rodrigo FuentesPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Maputo
March 25, 2009
Motivation
• NR: curse or blessing? Still open question– Fiscal response is one of the key elements– After a boom there is always a bust
• Why Chile?– Chile supplies 43% of world copper exports– CODELCO produced 16.4% of Gov. revenues in 2007– Pressures for higher government expenditures
• Main goal of my presentation: show how government ‘s copper revenues are managed to avoid undesired outcomes
Are resources well managed? Yes!
• Transparency in the public finance
• Fiscal rule determines the timing of spending copper revenues
• Fiscal rule + stabilization fund avoid appreciation of the local currency
• Natural resources’ privatization
• Institutions and property rights are essential to make the above policies work
This presentation
• The role of copper in the Chilean economy
• Early reforms on fiscal discipline and how they survived over time
• The role of contracts with the private sector
• Government saving, intergenerational transfers and financial crisis
• Policy lessons
The role of copper in the Chilean economy
Price of Copper: Recent booming episode
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2007
Nominal Real (*)
(*) Deflated by USA Wholesale Price Index, basis July 2008=100.
Source: Chilean Copper Commission.
Copper production by CODELCO versus private producers
Source: Chilean Copper Commission.
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
1990 1998 2007
CODELCO Other Producers
(thousands tons of fine copper)
Foreign direct investment
Source: Foreign Investment Committee.
(nominal millions US$)
2,398.74,400.2
8,239.14,114.9
2,021.70
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
1974-1989 1990-1994 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2007
Mining and quarrying Manufacturing Industries Electricity, gas & water supply
Financial services Other Sectors
Mining investment in Chile
Source: CODELCO, ENAMI and Foreign Investment Committee. Data for 1974-1975 was not available for public investment.
(nominal millions US$)
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
1976-1989 1990-1994 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2007
Public FDI
Government's revenues
Source: The Budget Office of the Ministry of Finance (DIPRES).
(million Chilean $ of 2007)
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1990 1998 2007
Tax revenue Copper Other revenues
Early reforms on fiscal discipline and how they survived over time
Fiscal reforms: Initial conditions
• How was a responsible fiscal rule shaped over time? How and when did it start?
• Long history of failure: WWII to1970
• Nationalization of large copper mines, 1971
• Budget deficit (12%) financed by the Central Bank: 1973
• High barriers to trade, financial repression, price control: 1973
Balancing fiscal accounts
• The Military government after 1973– moved toward market economy – liberalized prices and interest rates – introduced a drastic trade reform– privatized SOEs– established a new pension fund system and– enforced fiscal and monetary responsibility
Some of the principles behind the reforms
• Secured property rights
• Fiscal consolidation and orthodox management of monetary and foreign exchange policies
• Favoring rules instead of public discretion
• Institutionalization of “rules of the game”
New environment
• Drastic reduction of public spending, tax reforms and privatization of SOE
• New fiscal institutionalism. 1975: State Financial Administration Law
• New constitution to shape political structure:– preserve continuity of policies– strong presidential system: President controls
budget and legislative agenda
Democratic government: 1990 -
• Keeps fiscal austerity: surplus in the 90s
• 2000: Explicit fiscal rule– structural surplus of 1% – recently cut to 0.5%
• Structural balance– tax revenues estimated at long-term trend GDP– prices of copper and molybdenum at their long-
run level
• Structural balance isolates cyclical effects
Fiscal deficit of central government 1960-2007
Source: The Budget Office of the Minister of Finance (DIPRES), Jofré, Lüders and Wagner (2000).
(percentage of GDP)
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*tttttt
t
ttttt MRMRCRCRMTRMTR
YY
NMTRNMTRBB
*
tB Structural balance
tB Effective balance
tNMTR Net non-mining tax revenues and social security payments
tMTR Tax revenues from private mining companies
*
tMTR Structural tax revenues from private mining companies
tY Effective GDP
*tY Trend GDP
tCR Effective transfers from CODELCO (copper sales)
*
tCR Structural transfers from CODELCO ( copper sales)
tMR Effective transfers from CODELCO (molybdenum sales)
*tMR Structural transfers from CODELCO ( molybdenum sales)
= GDP elasticity of non-mining tax revenues
Contracts with the private sector
Private sector is important in harnessing the revenues from NR
• Provides required capital
• Faces risks of expropriation
• Shares NR rents with the State
→ Government needs to provide right incentives to promote investment
Chilean policies for FDI and copper
• Decree Law 600 for FDI, 1974– guarantees rights to transfer capital and benefits– establishes non-discrimination principle between foreign
and domestic investors– tax treatment
• invariability of tax system• accelerated depreciation, cumulative losses and
interest payment deducted for tax purpose
• Organic Constitution Law of Mining Concessions, 1982 – compensation in case of expropriation=NPV of verified
reserves
Chilean policies for FDI and copper
• Chilean Mining Code, 1983– State is absolute owner of all mines– Can grant concessions for exploitation and
exploration
• Before 2005, fiscal regime targeted profits rather than revenues
• Problem: government did not collect much taxes from mining activities
• Is there rents in copper mining?• Royalty on mining from 2006 and on
Royalty tax according to the annual sales of a mining operator
Source: Foreign Investment Committee.
Annual sales of the mine operator
Rate
1. Mine operator with annual sales equal to or less than the equivalent of 12,000 MFT Not subject to the tax
2. Mine operator with annual sales equal to or less than the equivalent of 50,000 MFT, and greater than the equivalent of 12,000 MFT
2.1 Regarding that portion in excess of 12,000 and no greater than 15,000 MFT 0.5% 2.2 Regarding that portion in excess of 15,000 and no greater than 20,000 MFT 1.0% 2.3 Regarding that portion in excess of 20,000 and no greater than 25,000 MFT 1.5% 2.4 Regarding that portion in excess of 25,000 and no greater than 30,000 MFT 2.0% 2.5 Regarding that portion in excess of 30,000 and no greater than 35,000 MFT 2.5% 2.6 Regarding that portion in excess of 35,000 and no greater than 40,000 MFT 3.0% 2.7 Regarding that portion in excess of 40,000 MFT
4.5%
3. Mine operator with annual sales greater than 50,000 MFT 5.0%
Government savings, intergenerational transfers and financial crisis
Planned uses of copper resources
• Revenues from royalty → Fund for Innovation and Competitiveness
• Fund for Social and Economic Stabilization, FESS– smoothes effects of copper’s price
• Pension Reserve Fund, PRF – minimum and solidarity pensions– must be increased by 0.2% (min) to 0.5% (max) of
previous year’s GDP
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)
• Ministry of Finance decides:– Investments of and withdrawals from funds
• Central Bank intermediates both funds– delivers daily, monthly and quarterly reports– FESS: 12% of GDP (08/2008)– PRF: 1.5% of GDP (08/2008)
• According to Walsh et al. (2008)– management of the SWF is transparent and
according to best practice
Chile’s sovereign wealth funds allocation
*As of August 2008.Sources: Ministry of Finance (2008 a, b) and Walsh et al. (2008).
(percent of total assets )
Current* End-2008 target Sovereign Bonds (Nominal) 69 45 Sovereign Bonds (Inflation-Indexed) 1 15 Money Market Assets 30 5 Corporate Bonds 0 20 Equities 0 15
Total
100
100
Fiscal policy may worsen the crisis
• Evidence– Deliberate ‘countercyclical’ discretionary policy
has not contributed to economic stability (Feldstein, 2002)
– Let the automatic stabilizers work (Taylor, 2009)
• Carefully financial assistance to financial sector and new regulation scheme
• Role for monetary policy
• Chile: fiscal rule is an automatic stabilizer
Concluding remarks and policy lessons
Main lessons from the Chilean case
• Private sector involvement is crucial for extracting NR under financial capital scarcity– How to share NR rents– How to ensure property rights
• Fiscal rule
• SWF smooth government expenditures
• Government reputation, good institutions and policy improvements → save in good times for bad times
MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE: The Case of Chile
Rodrigo FuentesPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Maputo
March 25, 2009