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Paraguay; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This technical paper focuses on the challenges faced by Paraguay’s budget resources. Paraguay’s government should adopt a forward-looking fiscal strategy. The strategy’s main goals should be to contain budget dependence on Itaipu revenues, preserve fiscal discipline, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243309
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Government Spending and Inflationary Finance : A Public Finance Approach
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper analyzes the relationship between inflation tax and the level of government spending in a public finance … inflation tax becomes an increasing function of government spending. Furthermore, the more inefficient the tax collection system …, the larger the increase in the inflation tax for a given increase in government spending. A numerical analysis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396097
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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France
International Monetary Fund - 1997
This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401626
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Integrating a Unified Revenue Administration for Tax and Social Contribution Collections : Experiences of Central and Eastern European Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2004
During the 1990s, a failure to collect social contributions in Central and Eastern European countries deprived pension schemes of resources needed to meet their obligations. Based on these countries'' experience, this paper examines the trend to increase coordination of tax and contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404045
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Haiti; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This Selected Issues paper reviews key trends in Haiti’s fiscal performance over the past decade and discusses various options for strengthening the fiscal system. It suggests that a key challenge will be to generate adequate resources to support development, which requires an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825108
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Haiti; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Fiscal policy in Haiti should be oriented toward more developmental objectives. Steps have been taken in sustaining inclusiveness; however, the current taxation and expenditure frameworks do not completely fulfill the necessary requirements for these objectives. Inefficient public investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244481
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Czech Republic; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
targets for reducing inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242637
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Inflation Differentials in the EU : A Common ( Factors ) Approach with Implications for EU8 Euro Adoption Prospects
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor … analysis partitions observed inflation in EU25 countries into common-origin and country-specific (idiosyncratic) components …. Cross-country differences in common-origin inflation within the EU are found to depend on gaps in the initial price level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401399
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Optimal Taxation Policies in the EMS : A Two-Country Model of Public Finance
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes, in a public finance context, how the optimal use of the inflation and the consumption tax is … by 1992. Two main questions are addressed: first, how the constraint of having to share a common inflation tax, in order … to preserve fixed-exchange rates, influences the optimal policy decisions concerning the inflation tax; secondly, how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396346
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Government budgeting and expenditure controls : theory and practice
Premchand, Arigapudi; Premchand, A. - 1983
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000637896