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1997

Major budgeting reforms have been initiated in a number of OECD countries in recent years. These reforms focus on giving spending agencies greater flexibility in using resources, in exchange for holding them responsible for achieving results. This publication examines how five Member countries...

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OECD Tax Policy Studies No. 7b - OECD Fiscal Design Survey Background Paper: Hungary

2001

In accordance with decisions made by the FDI, the OECD has initiated surveys on fiscal decentralisation for the purpose of providing international comparisons on the design of fiscal systems across levels of government. The FDI is a joint initiative of the OECD, the World Bank, USAID, the...

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Budgeting and Policy Making

1996

The purpose of this volume is to provide a reference book and a training manual for public administrators in the transitional economies, and in particular for officials with budgeting and policy-making responsibilities. The book is a follow-up to the Multicountry Seminar in Ljubljana (1-2 April...

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OECD Tax Policy Studies No. 7a - OECD Fiscal Design Survey Background Paper: Czech Republic

2001

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Fiscal design surveys across levels of government

2002

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Should Measures of Fiscal Stance be Adjusted for Terms of Trade Effects?

2006

This paper considers the case for adjusting measures of the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance for exceptional movements in the terms of trade for those countries where production of commodities is a substantial share of output. For such countries exceptional movements in commodity prices, such...

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Decomposing world income distribution : does the world have a middle class?

Milanovic, Branko - 2001

In Asia inequality in income between countries is more important than inequality within countries. In Africa, Latin … America, and western Europe and North America, by contrast, there are only small differences between countries; inequality …

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Democracy and income inequality : an empirical analysis

Gradstein, Mark - 2001

Ideology, as proxied by a country's dominant religion, seems to be related to inequality. In Judeo-Christian societies … increased democratization appears to lower inequality; in Muslim and Confucian societies it has an insignificant effect. One … of inequality, while Judeo-Christian societies, where family ties are weaker, use political action …

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Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world

Wagstaff, Adam - 2000

Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...

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Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons between and within countries

Filmer, Deon - 1998

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