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Coady, David; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...

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Income Distribution and Tax and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries

Chu, Ke-young; Davoodi, Hamid Reza; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

health care and primary and secondary education programs in developing countries are not well targeted, but their incidence …

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Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries; Implications for Achieving the Mdgs

Baldacci, Emanuele; Cui, Qiang; Clements, Benedict J.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health … spending have a positive and significant direct impact on the accumulation of education and health capital, and thus can lead …

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Macroeconomic Management with Informal Financial Markets

Haque, Nadeem Ul; Agénor, Pierre-Richard - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1994

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Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth

Gupta, Sanjeev; Kangur, Alvar; Wane, Abdoul Aziz; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper constructs an efficiency-adjusted public capital stock series and re-examines the public capital and growth relationship for 52 developing countries. The results show that public capital is a significant contributor to economic growth. Although the estimated coefficient for the income...

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Is Social Spending Procyclical?

Gupta, Sanjeev; Hajdenberg, Alejandro; Granado, Javier … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper studies the cyclical behavior of public spending on health and education in 150 countries during 1987 - 2007 …. It finds that spending on education and health is procyclical in developing countries and acyclical in developed … countries. In addition, education and health expenditures follow an asymmetric pattern in developing countries; they are …

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The Cyclical and Long-Term Behavior of Government Expenditures in Developing Countries

Inchauste, Gabriela; Akitoby, Bernardin; Clements, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

We examine the short- and long-term movements of government spending relative to output in 51 countries. We find that in the short term, the main components of government spending increase with output in about half of the sample countries, with some variation across spending categories and...

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How Effective is Fiscal Policy Response in Systemic Banking Crises?

Gupta, Sanjeev; Mulas-Granados, Carlos; Baldacci, Emanuele - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy response in 118 episodes of systemic banking crisis in advanced and emerging market countries during 1980-2008. It finds that timely countercyclical fiscal measures contribute to shortening the length of crisis episodes by stimulating aggregate...

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Fiscal Reforms in Low-Income Countries

Clements, Benedict J.; Ebrill, Liam P.; Gupta, Sanjeev; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998

The reform of fiscal policies and institutions lies at the heart of structural adjustment in developing countries. Although the immediate aim of such reform is to reduce fiscal imbalances to achieve macroeconomic stability, the long-term goal is to secure more durable improvements in fiscal...

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Anticipated Exchange Rate Reforms

Flood, Robert P.; Agénor, Pierre-Richard - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

Exchange rate reforms in developing countries have often aimed at floating the exchange rate in an attempt to unify the official and parallel markets for foreign exchange. This paper examines the anticipatory dynamics associated with such reforms. The analysis shows that if the future unified...

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