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Can fiscal rules help reduce macroeconomic volatility in the Latin America and Caribbean Region?

Perry, Guillermo - 2003

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Moldova - The Consequences of Several Shocks for Consumption and Poverty

World Bank - 2012

The distribution of consumption in Moldova implies that changes in workers' remittances, migration, and energy prices … could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups … proportion to their consumption. The consumption of relatively wealthy groups is linked directly to price of natural gas, while …

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The quality of fiscal adjustment and the long-run growth impact of fiscal policy in Brazil

Blanco, Fernando - 2006

increasing government consumption and transfer payments on GDP. These results shed light on the contribution of fiscal policy to …

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Philippines - Public Expenditure Review : Strengthening Public Finance for More Inclusive Growth

World Bank - 2012

This Public Expenditure Review analyzes trends in revenues, expenditures and development outcomes over the past 10 years. Its main findings are that, since the late 1990s, the Philippines has been caught in a low-revenue, low-expenditure trap and that the current level of public revenues is not...

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Cameroon - Fiscal policy for growth and development

World Bank - 2012

Cameroon's growth achievement is disappointing and the country is not likely to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on its current trajectory. Underemployment is extremely high, with risks of social unrest and instability. The fallout of the current global economic crisis is...

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Croatia - Restructuring Public Finance to Sustain Growth and Improve Public Services : A Public Finance Review

World Bank - 2012

The year 2000 was a turning point in Croatian history, marked by closing the chapter of the war and the first phase of transition. With that, the country turned its attention to the "second transition,"the principle goal of which is to place Croatia on a path to the European Union (EU). While...

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Croatia - Restructuring Public Finance to Sustain Growth and Improve Public Services : A Public Finance Review

World Bank - 2012

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Brazil - Improving Fiscal Circumstances for Growth : Volume 1. Stylized Facts and Recommendations

World Bank - 2012

This document is part of a series of reports by the World Bank on Brazil's potential to foment more robust economic growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The main focus of this report is on the interrelated fiscal circumstances facing Brazil, with an emphasis on public sector spending. The...

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Brazil - Improving Fiscal Circumstances for Growth : Volume 2. Main Report

World Bank - 2012

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Guinea-Bissau - Public Expenditure Review Update : Enhancing Growth and Fiscal Adjustment Through Civil Service Reform

World Bank - 2012

Guinea-Bissau's large public sector wage bill poses a major threat to the country's macroeconomic stability: it hampers growth, limits the government's ability to service the domestic and external debt, and crowds out private investments. For this reason, the government decided in early 2006 to...

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