Public Finance for Poverty Reduction : Concepts and Case Studies from Africa and Latin America

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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Public Finance for Poverty Reduction: An Overview Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Quentin Wodon; Part One Concepts in Public Finance:Debt,Taxation, Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, and Benefit Incidence Analysis; Chapter 2 Debt Sustainability for Low-Income Countries: A Review of Standard and Alternative Concepts Danny Cassimon, Blanca Moreno-Dodson, and Quentin Wodon; Table 2.1 Debt Sustainability Thresholds and Policy Performance for IDA14; Chapter 3 Revenue Design and Taxation Eric M. Zolt

Table 3.1 Comparative Levels of Tax Revenue, Selected Years, 1985-97Table 3.2 Comparative Composition of Tax Revenue, Selected Years, 1985-97; Chapter 4 Assessing Front-line Service Delivery: Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson; Table 4.1 Leakage of Public Funds for Education, Uganda, 1991-95; Chapter 5 The Impact of Budgets on the Poor: Tax and Expenditure Benefit Incidence Analysis Jorge Martinez-Vazquez; Part Two Case Studies from the Latin America and the Caribbean Region

Chapter 6 Analyzing Debt Sustainability: An Application of SimSIP Debt for Paraguay Bernhard G. Gunter and Quentin WodonFigure 6.1 Initial Conditions and Basic Macroeconomic Assumptions; Figure 6.2 Results of Different Export Growth Scenarios; Figure 6.3 Assumptions on Public Domestic Debt; Figure 6.4 Results of the Baseline, Pessimistic, and Optimistic Scenarios; Figure 6.5 Results of Different Revenue and Expenditure Scenarios; Table 6.1 Short- and Long-Term Consistency Matrices; Table 6A.1 Trends in Paraguay's Debt, 1991-2000

Chapter 7 Evaluating a Tax System: Mexico Jorge Martinez-VazquezTable 7.1 Marginal Effective Corporate Tax Rates on Domestic Capital Investment; Table 7.2 Tax Burden by Income Decile: Baseline Scenario; Table 7.3 Tax Burden by Income Decile: Alternate Scenario; Table 7.4 Distribution of Net Income among Income Deciles; Table 7.5 Distribution of Gross Income among Deciles: Base Scenario; Table 7.6 Distribution of Gross Income among Deciles: Alternate Scenario

Chapter 8 Measuring Targeting Performance through Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys: Peru José R. López-Cálix, Lorena Alcázar, and Erik WachtenheimTable 8.1 Correlation between Expenditure and Poverty, by Department, 2001; Figure 8.1 Lorenz Curves in Selected Social Programs; Table 8.2 Household Access to Social Programs, by Poverty Level, 2001; Figure 8.2 Lorenz Curves for Health Care Expenditures; Figure 8.3 Lorenz Curves for Education Expenditures; Table 8.3 Targeting of Individual Beneficiaries by Food Assistance, Health Care, and Education Programs, 2000

Figure 8.4 Access to Social Programs, 2001

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