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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658813
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020530
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Fiscal management in Myanmar
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290008
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781135