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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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Making Public Investment More Efficient
International Monetary Fund - 2015
Public investment supports the delivery of key public services, connects citizens and firms to economic opportunities, and can serve as an important catalyst for economic growth. After three decades of decline, public investment has begun to recover as a share of GDP in emerging markets (EMs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408564
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A Model of Adjustment and Growth : An Empirical Analysis
International Monetary Fund - 1989
into a unified framework in which inflation, growth, and the balance of payments are simultaneously determined. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396167
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Human Capital Flight : Impact of Migrationon Income and Growth
International Monetary Fund - 1994
This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395877
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Government budgeting and expenditure controls : theory and practice
Premchand, Arigapudi; Premchand, A. - 1983
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000637896
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Government Spending, Rights, and Civil Liberties
International Monetary Fund - 2000
Government spending plays a critical role in protecting and enforcing rights and civil liberties. Empirical evidence for a sample of industrial and developing countries shows that government expenditures on defense, law and order, social security, education, and health care are associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400244
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Distributional Implications of Government Tax and Expenditure Policies : Issues, Problems, and Methodology
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper examines the methodological issues arising in the measurement of the distributional impact of tax and expenditure policies, with emphasis on the problems related to the measurement of the impact of adjustment programs on the welfare of the poor. Both conceptual and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396116
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A Noteon the Public Choice Approach to the Growth in Government Expenditure
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper applies an empirical model, based on the economic theory of public choice, to the Group of Seven countries … productivity lag in the government sectors of Canada, Japan, and the United States, but not those of France, Italy, or the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395824
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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending
International Monetary Fund - 2003
The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400085
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The Welfare Effects of Public Expenditure Programs Reconsidered
International Monetary Fund - 1989
The paper proposes a new welfare-based measure to evaluate the distributive effects of public programs. The proposed measure differs from traditional approaches in two important ways: first, it is based on life-cycle considerations, since most public expenditure programs have an intertemporal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396379