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Oo, Zaw; Joelene, Cindy; Minoletti, Paul; Phoo Pwint Phyu; … - 2015

Past governments in Myanmar presided over a system generally characterized by weak fiscal management, but this has recently changed with the present government restoring a measure of fiscal discipline, reorienting fiscal priorities, and establishing a clear set of fiscal objectives in the...

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Mongolia - Public Expenditure and Financial Management Review : Bridging the Public Expenditure Management Gap

World Bank - 2013

Mongolia has realized important progress toward more efficient and sustainable public finances over the last decade. However, weaknesses in the institutional and structural reform agenda threaten Mongolia's fiscal balances. The government proposes to grow at 6 percent. This report discusses...

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Ecuador - Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction : A Fiscal Management and Public Expenditure Review, Volume 1. Main Report

World Bank - 2013

The report, a joint effort by the Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, seeks to provide the Ecuadorian authorities with a comprehensive account of both institutions' diagnoses and recommendations in the area of fiscal management and public expenditure. This report consists of two...

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Ecuador - Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction : A Fiscal Management and Public Expenditure Review, Volume 2. Background Papers

World Bank - 2013

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Saint Kitts and Nevis - OECS Fiscal Issues : Policies to Achieve Fiscal Sustainability and Improve Efficiency and Equity of Public Expenditures

World Bank - 2013

Despite high levels of per capita incomes and good social service provision, poverty remains a persistent problem in St. Kitts and Nevis. To improve competitiveness, restore rapid economic growth, and ensure its medium-term sustainability in the context of the currency union, the main challenges...

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Housing and housing finance : a review of the links to economic development and poverty reduction

Doling, John; Vandenberg, Paul; Tolentino, Jade - 2013

The paper provides a review of the literature that links housing, housing finance, and economic development. The …, constituting the most valuable asset owned by most households and often requiring housing finance (mortgages) to allow for purchase …. These links - between housing and the economy and between housing and housing finance - are explored in this review paper …

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Closing development gaps : challenges and policy options

Brooks, Douglas Howard (contributor) - 2010

external trade and finance - including foreign direct investment, remittances, and aid - play a critical role. It is therefore …

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Fiscal space and increasing fiscal resilience

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - 2019

The paper compares fiscal cyclicality across regions and countries from 1960 to 2016. It finds that more than half of 170 countries analyzed in seven regions had, in more recent years, limited fiscal space, and that their fiscal policy was either cyclical or procyclical. This was particularly...

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