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The spending challenge for reaching the SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa : lessons learned from Benin and Rwanda
Prady, Delphine; Sy, Mouhamadou - 2019
progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average … sources given the scale of additional spending, and iv) strong national ownership of SDGs is key and should be reflected in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154993
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A time to build : does technical assistance matter for revenue mobilization?
Chami, Ralph; Darkey, Elorm; Williams, Oral Highworth - 2021
We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000-18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors' knowledge this is the first such effort to determine a direct relationship between technical assistance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518287
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SDG financing options in Rwanda : a post-pandemic assessment
Lledó, Victor D.; Perrelli, Roberto - 2021
sustainable development goals (SDGs). Under current policies, Rwanda would meet its SDGs right after 2050. Active policies that … financing gap, enabling the country to meet its SDG targets by 2040. For Rwanda to meet its SDGs by 2030, active policies would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605067
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Expanding credit access : using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impact
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003444342
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Expanding credit access : using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impacts
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003530091
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399582
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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gupta, Sanjeev - 2007
swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400356
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Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the Mams Model : An Application to Burkina Faso
International Monetary Fund - 2009
positive effect on growth as well as education and health outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402270
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Impoverished, but numerate? : early numeracy in East Asia (1550 - 1800) and its impact on 20th and 21st century economic growth
Baten, Jörg; Sohn, Kitae - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363508
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Fiscal Sustainability and the Fiscal Reaction Function for South Africa
Jooste, Charl - 2011
How does the South African government react to changes in its debt position? In investigating the question, this paper estimates fiscal reaction functions using various methods (OLS, VAR, TAR, GMM, State-Space modelling and VECM). The paper finds that since 1946 the South African government has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401110