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The Czech government is confronted with a worsening fiscal situation. The structural deficit ballooned in 2000, and it is expected to widen further in 2001. The report suggests that, at this stage of the recovery, fiscal retrenchment instead should be in order, both to make room for private...
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This public expenditure review analyzes recent developments in the Czech Republic, and future prospects for growth, with fiscal stability. In analyzing the strategic setting, where a central thrust of this strategy is the accession to the European Union (EU), the report suggests than an...
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The main message of this report is that Pakistan can take measures to increase the tax to gross domestic product (GDP …, Pakistan needs to embrace substantial changes in tax policy aimed at increasing the buoyancy of the tax system, broadening the … for a comprehensive reform of tax policy in Pakistan. In the final analysis, the success of tax reform will depend less on …
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The main message of this report is that Pakistan can take measures to increase the tax to gross domestic product (GDP …, Pakistan needs to embrace substantial changes in tax policy aimed at increasing the buoyancy of the tax system, broadening the … for a comprehensive reform of tax policy in Pakistan. In the final analysis, the success of tax reform will depend less on …
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"The authors use a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) for taxes on domestic goods, exports, imports, capital, and labor in 38 African countries. The resulting MCF estimates provide directions for tax reform in Africa. The authors investigate...
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"Over the past decade the United States has experienced widening current account deficits and a steady deterioration of its net foreign asset position. During the second half of the 1990s, this deterioration was fueled by foreign investment in a booming U.S. stock market. During the first half...
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"Chen focuses on the effects of age structure changes on the size of budget deficits of national governments. More specifically, he determines whether differences in age structure can account for the observed differences in budget deficits across countries as well as across time. By way of an...
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