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"The authors use preliminary results from an ongoing effort to construct estimates of debt relief to study its allocation across a sample of 62 low-income countries. They find some evidence that debt relief, particularly from multilateral creditors, has been allocated to countries with better...
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"The authors revisit the debt overhang question. They first use nonparametric techniques to isolate a panel of countries on the downward sloping section of a debt Laffer Curve. In particular, overhang countries are ones where a threshold level of debt is reached in sample, beyond which (initial)...
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where higher food prices are likely to hurt the most using Guinea census and survey data as a case study. The results …
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Following a decade of relatively strong growth, Guinea's economic performance weakened beginning in 2000. During 1992 … increased to 39 by 2006. Guinea's worsening economic performance since 2000 reflects a weaker policy framework and exogenous …. Government revenues from the mining sector dropped, despite a recovery in the price of bauxite-Guinea's most important export …
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existing innovative practices in Guinea and/or the region. Chapter four offers recommendations to manage change and maintain …
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This Public Expenditure Review (PER) presents a critical view of Guinea-Bissau's nascent democratic structure, one that …
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Public expenditure management is at the heart of Guinea's strategy for poverty reduction and growth. The impact of …
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The 2003 Guinea Country Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA) was implemented jointly with the 2003 Guinea Public … (PER-FA) for Guinea. This approach has been followed in order a) to have a cohesive, and coherent set of analysis, and … recommendations on Public Finance, b) to reduce the demands on the Government of Guinea, which might have resulted from a duplication …
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In Guinea, improving the productivity of upland rice is a key challenge for the national agricultural services. Though … rice is the main staple in Guinea, low yields make the country highly dependent on rice imports that it can ill afford … for on-farm trials and then to extension will have taken years. To speed up the process, Guinea's national extension …
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