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Civil service reform : strengthening World Bank and IMF collaboration

2002

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Civil Service Reform Strengthening World Bank and IMF Collaboration

International Monetary Fund - 2002

Civil service reform is often essential to bring about governanceimprovements that are needed for sustainable poverty reduction.A workshop hosted by the World Bank and the IMF in September 2001provided a forum to review the effectiveness of Bank-Fund advice and programs on civil service reform,...

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Corruption and the Rate of Temptation : Do Low Wages in the Civil Service Cause Corruption?

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper develops and tests two efficiency wage models of corruption in the civil service. Under fair wage models …, civil service wages are an important determinant of corruption. Under shirking models, the level of wages is of secondary … importance, as potential bribes dwarf wage income. The empirical evidence points to a negative relationship between corruption …

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such … the period 1985–98. The association between military spending and corruption is ascertained by using panel regression … techniques. The results suggest that corruption is indeed associated with higher military spending as a share of both GDP and …

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Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability : Evidence From Panel Data Regressions

International Monetary Fund - 2009

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation … increase in oil rents significantly increases corruption, significantly deteriorates political rights while at the same time … redistribution and conflict. We support our argument documenting that there is a significant effect of oil rents on corruption in …

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Theoretical Aspects of the Design of Fund-Supported Adjustment Programs

International Monetary Fund - 1987

This paper was originally prepared for a seminar of the Executive Board of the Fund. In the seminar, Executive Directors expressed a broad range of views with regard to both the adequacy of the Fund's approach to financial programming and the validity of the analysis presented in this paper

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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity

International Monetary Fund - 1998

This paper uses a simple model to analyze the forces that determine the size of the public sector and the quality of workers employed in that sector. Workers are heterogeneous, and the public sector chooses an employment strategy that maximizes a social welfare function U(s, Y) that depends on...

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Macroeconomics and Famine

International Monetary Fund - 1989

The aim of the paper is to shift the focus of famine analysis away from food supply towards the macroeconomic determinants of food entitlement—i.e., to the ability of individuals to purchase food. Towards this end, we develop a model to demonstrate how loose monetary and fiscal policies may...

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A Model of Adjustment and Growth : An Empirical Analysis

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper develops a model merging the monetary approach to the balance of payments and a neoclassical growth model into a unified framework in which inflation, growth, and the balance of payments are simultaneously determined. The empirical part of the paper presents estimates of the key...

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Debt Relief and Adjustment Incentives : A Theoretical Exploration

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the argument that debt relief would increase the incentive of a debtor country to make an adjustment effort (to invest) and that for this reason creditors may benefit by granting relief. It is shown that there are actually opposing incentive effects of...

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