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      "heading": "Multi-dimensional indices of budget institutions",
      "content": "- Presents, for the first time, multi-dimensional indices of the quality of budget institutions in low-income countries.\n- Indices enable benchmarking:\n  - against the performance of middle-income countries,\n  - across regions,\n  - according to different institutional arrangements that deliver good fiscal performance."
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      "heading": "Key empirical findings",
      "content": "- Preliminary empirical support for the hypotheses that:\n  - strong budget institutions help improve fiscal balances;\n  - strong budget institutions help improve public external debt outcomes;\n  - countries with stronger fiscal institutions have better scope to conduct countercyclical policies."
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      "content": "- Authors: Sophia Gollwitzer, Eteri Kvintradze, Tej Prakash, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Era Dabla-Norris, Richard I Allen, Irene Yackovlev, Victor Duarte Lledo\n- Date: March 1, 2010\n- Pages: 56\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2010/080\n- Issue: 080\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451982237.001\n- ISBN: 9781451982237\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Stock No: WPIEA2010080\n\nContent summarized from \"Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Low-Income Countries\", IMF Working Papers, March 1, 2010.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp1080\n  - wp1080 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp1080 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/budget-institutions-and-fiscal-performance-in-low-income-countries-23734"
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