| Contents |
| Foreword |
| Contributors |
| Acknowledgments |
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| 1. |
Fiscal Policy for Economic Development: An Overview
(142 kb pdf file) |
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Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, and Gabriela Inchauste |
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| I. Macroeconomic Policy in Developing
Countries |
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| 2. |
Fiscal Policy, Expenditure Composition,
and Growth in Low-Income Countries |
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Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements,
Emanuele Baldacci, and Carlos Mulas-Granados |
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| 3. |
Persistence of Fiscal Adjustments and
Expenditure Composition in Low-Income Countries |
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Emanuele Baldacci, Benedict Clements,
Sanjeev Gupta, and Carlos Mulas-Granados |
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| 4. |
Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy
Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries |
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Emanuele Baldacci, Arye L. Hillman,
and Naoko Kojo |
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| 5. |
External Debt, Public Investment and
Growth in Low-Income Countries |
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Benedict Clements, Rina Bhattacharya,
and Tuan Quoc Nguyen |
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| 6. |
A Framework for Fiscal Debt Sustainability
Analysis in Low-Income Countries |
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Emanuele Baldacci and Kevin Fletcher |
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| 7. |
Experience with Budgetary Convergence
in the WAEMU |
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Ousmane Doré and Paul R. Masson |
|
| II. Public Spending and the Millennium
Development Goals |
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| 8. |
The Effectiveness of Government Spending
on Education and Health Care in Developing and Transition Economies |
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Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven,
and Erwin R. Tiongson |
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| 9. |
Public Spending on Health Care and the
Poor |
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Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven,
and Erwin R. Tiongson |
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| 10. |
User Payments for Basic Education in
Low-Income Countries |
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Arye L. Hillman and Eva Jenkner |
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| 11. |
The Efficiency of Government Expenditure:
Experiences from Africa |
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Sanjeev Gupta and Marijn Verhoeven |
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| III. Revenues and Growth |
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| 12. |
Tax Policy in Developing Countries:
Some Lessons from the 1990s and Some Challenges Ahead |
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Michael Keen and Alejandro Simone |
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| 13. |
Social Impact of a Tax Reform: The Case
of Ethiopia |
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Sònia Muñoz and Stanley
Sang-Wook Cho |
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| 14. |
Foreign Aid and Revenue Response: Does
the Composition of Aid Matter? |
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Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements,
Alexander Pivovarsky and Erwin R. Tiongson |
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| IV. Fiscal Policy and Aid |
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| 15. |
More Aid-Making It Work for the Poor |
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Peter S. Heller and Sanjeev Gupta |
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| 16. |
Aid and Fiscal Management |
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Aleš Bulír and Timothy
Lane |
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| 17. |
Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing:
Evidence from Global Food Aid |
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Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements,
and Erwin R. Tiongson |
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| V. Special Topics |
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| 18. |
Fiscal Consequences of Armed Conflict
and Terrorism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
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Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements,
Rina Bhattacharya, and Shamit Chakravarti |
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| 19. |
A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure
Management Systems in Africa |
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Ian Lienert |
