Der von IWF entwickelte Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency soll für eine umfassende Information der Öffentlichkeit über den Aufbau und die Aufgaben der Regierungen, die fiskalischen Ziele und die öffentlichen Haushalte sorgen. Die durch den Verhaltenskodex geforderte Transparenz...

This book investigates the relation between investment, R&D, and long-run growth. Its first part surveys the literature on R&D-based growth. This survey is supplemented by a number of classifying tables. In its second part, the book goes beyond the models of R&D-based growth by proposing a more...

For Afghanistan, the dual prospect of declining donor support and high ongoing security spending over the medium term keeps its government budget tight. This paper uses a general equilibrium model to capture the security–development trade-off facing the government in its effort to...

The recent labour-market performance varies greatly between the United States and continental Europe on the one hand, and between the low- and high-skilled on the other. This book starts by presenting up-to-date empirical evidence on these stylised facts and on the importance of the intensity of...