Showing 1 - 10 of 12
This paper examines the revenue response to inflows of foreign aid in 107 countries during the period 1970–2000, In particular, it investigates whether the impact of aid on the revenue effort depends on the composition of aid (grants vis-à-vis loans). The results indicate that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599232
This paper surveys the economic literature on the scaling-up of aid to Africa. It provides a checklist of issues that need to be considered when preparing a long term macroeconomic projection for a country involving the assumption of a significant increase in aid. Such scaling-up scenarios are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605181
This paper reexamines the relationship between aid and domestic tax revenues using a more recent and comprehensive … association between net Official Development Assistance (ODA) and domestic tax revenues, but this relationship appears to have … are negatively associated with VAT, excise and income tax revenues, but have a positive relationship with trade taxes. Aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242414
This paper reviews income distribution in developing (and transition) countries in recent decades. On average, before-tax … countries, developing countries in general have not been able to use tax and transfer policies effectively to reduce income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248221
cuts when deficit reduction needs are large independent of initial tax ratios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680272
the impact of expanding resource revenues on different types of domestic (non resource) tax revenues. Overall, we find a … the major tax components. For each additional percentage point of GDP in resource revenues, there is a reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123866
This paper assesses the effects of expenditure composition as well as fiscal adjustment on economic growth in a sample of 39 low-income countries during the 1990s. The paper finds that strong budgetary positions and fiscal consolidation are generally associated with higher economic growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264087
typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates governance problems because the lower domestic tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825627
government consumption are more effective in shortening the crisis duration than those based on public investment or income tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528701
This paper examines the factors affecting the persistence of fiscal consolidation in 25 emerging market countries during 1980-2001. It proposes a new approach for defining spells of fiscal consolidation. The results indicate that the probability of ending a fiscal adjustment is affected by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604903