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  "title": "Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, March 19, 2021",
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  "summary": "This paper explores the role of public expenditure in fostering inclusive growth. It starts with a presentation of salient features of public expenditure.",
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      "content": "- Explores the role of public expenditure in fostering inclusive growth.\n- Presents salient features of public expenditure.\n- Lays out an analytical framework describing channels through which public expenditure affects inequality and poverty in the short and long term.\n- Reviews empirical literature to discuss policy options.\n- Assesses the role of key factors such as the initial conditions and the institutions in shaping inclusive spending policies."
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      "heading": "Analytical framework",
      "content": "- Describes channels linking public expenditure to inequality and poverty.\n- Considers both short-term and long-term effects of public expenditure on distributional outcomes."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Empirical findings (literature review)",
      "content": "- Synthesizes empirical literature on how public expenditure influences inequality and poverty.\n- Focuses on effectiveness and mean inequality impact of spending policies across contexts."
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    {
      "heading": "Policy options and recommendations",
      "content": "- Discusses policy options informed by the empirical literature.\n- Emphasizes designing inclusive spending policies considering initial conditions and institutional context."
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    {
      "heading": "Role of initial conditions and institutions",
      "content": "- Assesses how initial conditions shape feasible and effective inclusive spending policies.\n- Evaluates the influence of institutions on the implementation and outcomes of public expenditure."
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      "content": "- Title: Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey\n- Authors: Younes Zouhar, Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, Mohamed Trabelsi\n- Date: March 19, 2021\n- Pages: 75\n- Volume: 2021\n- Issue: 083\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2021/083\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513574387.001\n- Stock No: WPIEA2021083\n- ISBN: 9781513574387\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Subjects: Education, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Income, Income inequality, National accounts\n- Keywords: Africa, Global, inclusive growth, Income, Income inequality, inequality, mean inequality impact effectiveness, policy option, poverty, poverty rate, public expenditure, social spending, spending policy\n- Format noted on landing page: IMF Working Papers\n\nSource: IMF Working Papers landing page for \"Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey\", accessed via the publication metadata provided.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Working Paper\n  - Working Paper (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Working Paper (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2021/03/19/public-expenditure-and-inclusive-growth-a-survey-50190"
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    "Authors: Younes Zouhar, Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, Mohamed Trabelsi",
    "Published: March 19, 2021",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513574387.001",
    "Explores the role of public expenditure in fostering inclusive growth.",
    "Presents salient features of public expenditure.",
    "Lays out an analytical framework describing channels through which public expenditure affects inequality and poverty in the short and long term.",
    "Reviews empirical literature to discuss policy options.",
    "Assesses the role of key factors such as the initial conditions and the institutions in shaping inclusive spending policies.",
    "Describes channels linking public expenditure to inequality and poverty.",
    "Considers both short-term and long-term effects of public expenditure on distributional outcomes.",
    "Synthesizes empirical literature on how public expenditure influences inequality and poverty.",
    "Focuses on effectiveness and mean inequality impact of spending policies across contexts.",
    "Discusses policy options informed by the empirical literature.",
    "Emphasizes designing inclusive spending policies considering initial conditions and institutional context.",
    "Assesses how initial conditions shape feasible and effective inclusive spending policies.",
    "Evaluates the influence of institutions on the implementation and outcomes of public expenditure.",
    "Title: Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey",
    "Authors: Younes Zouhar, Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, Mohamed Trabelsi",
    "Date: March 19, 2021",
    "Pages: 75",
    "Volume: 2021",
    "Issue: 083",
    "Series: Working Paper No. 2021/083",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513574387.001",
    "Stock No: WPIEA2021083",
    "ISBN: 9781513574387",
    "ISSN: 1018-5941",
    "Subjects: Education, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Income, Income inequality, National accounts",
    "Keywords: Africa, Global, inclusive growth, Income, Income inequality, inequality, mean inequality impact effectiveness, policy option, poverty, poverty rate, public expenditure, social spending, spending policy",
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