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Impact of Government Expenditure on Growth: The Case of Azerbaijan

May 1, 2008

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Impact of Government Expenditure on Growth: The Case of Azerbaijan, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 9, 2024
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Summary

This paper evaluates a fiscal scenario based on the assumption of a rapid scaling-up of expenditure to be followed by a rapid scaling-down in the context of Azerbaijan's current temporary oil production boom. To this end, it relies on a review of historical precedents and a neoclassical growth model. Based on both strands of analysis, the paper suggests that the evaluated fiscal scenario poses significant risks to growth sustainability.

Subject: Capital spending, Expenditure, Oil production, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Public investment spending

Keywords: Azerbaijan, GDP, Growth spurt, Reduction strategy, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    18

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2008/115

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2008115

  • ISBN:

    9781451869750

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941