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Aggregation of Economic Indicators Across Countries; Exchange Rate versus PPP Based GDP Weights

Schulze-Gattas, Marianne; Gulde, Anne Marie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

Relative GDP shares are frequently used as weights in aggregations. In order to ensure that these weights reflect countries’ shares in real output, GDP data in national currencies should be converted into a common numeraire currency at purchasing power parity (PPP) rates. A review of the...

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Reforming the Russian Budget System; A Move to More Devolved Budget Management?

Diamond, Jack - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

The Russian federal government has recently initiated a fundamental reform of its budget system, encompassing important policy, procedural, and institutional changes. This paper reviews this reform agenda with reference to the experience of industrial countries that over the past two to three...

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Are Laws Needed for Public Management Reforms; An International Comparison?

Lienert, Ian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

There has been widespread adoption of new laws to support new public management. In many countries that have implemented comprehensive and deep reforms, new or amended laws have fundamentally changed the role of the state and the budget processes supporting it. Paradoxically, far-reaching...

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Public-Private Partnerships; A Public Economics Perspective

Sadka, Efraim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) involve the supply by the private sector of infrastructure and services deriving from infrastructure assets which have traditionally been supplied by the public sector. PPPs are spreading all over the world. It may be quite plausible that such arrangements were...

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from four different sources for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–98. The association between military...

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Aid Scaling Up; Do Wage Bill Ceilings Stand in the Way?

Fedelino, Annalisa; Schwartz, Gerd; Verhoeven, Marijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper assesses whether the scaling up of aid and the resulting increase in government spending that is needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be hampered by wage bill ceilings that are often part of government programs supported by the IMF's Poverty Reduction and...

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Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World; Evidence from a New Dataset

Arezki, Rabah; Lui, Herbert; Quintyn, Marc; Toscani, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries...

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Demand Patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium: Can We Explain the Differences?

Lebrun, Igor; Ruiz, Esther Pérez - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

core. This paper puts recent demand patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium into historical perspective. We find that …

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Heimarbeit: immer weniger Menschen in Deutschland gehen ihrem Beruf von zu Hause aus nach

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 131-139

In 2012, almost five million people, or roughly 10 percent of the labor force in Germany, worked from home most or some … then. Yet overall employment in Germany has increased, as has the percentage of employees working from home in the European … Union as a whole. Compared with other EU countries, Germany is somewhat below average when it comes to home working; in …

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Breites Maßnahmenpaket zum Klimaschutz kann Kosten der Emissionsminderung in Deutschland deutlich verringern

Kemfert, Claudia; Traber, Thure; Truong, Truong P. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 18, pp. 303-307

senken. Sollte es Deutschland gelingen, eine faire Lastenverteilung auf die europäischen Länder zu erwirken, welche den …. Sollte es eine faire Lastenverteilung geben und sollte Deutschland alle Energieeffizienzpotentiale ausschöpfen, würden sich …,9 Mrd. Euro pro Jahr belaufen. Dabei würde Deutschland seine Emissionen gegenüber 1990 um 31 % vermindern. Sollte keine …

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