efficiency, equity, and administrative and compliance costs. This paper analyzes tax expenditures in Italy, considering the …

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …

services) for a panel of 168 countries over the period 1970-2010. The analysis points to large differences in sector shares … that policy and insitutional variables, such as product market reforms, openness to trade, human and physical capital, and …

, including from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper estimates the impact of changes in China’s investment growth on SSAâ …. Based on panel data analysis, a 1 percentage point increase (decline) in China’s domestic investment growth is associated …

Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The …

actively pursued in Africa. The benefits of monetary union come from a more credible monetary policy, while the costs derive …

public investment efficiency and a learning-by-doing (LBD) externality that captures Dutch disease effects. On the policy … - financing a higher current account deficit - which is influenced by the central bank's reserve accumulation policies. We … - raise its efficiency. …