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Adjustment Under a Currency Peg; Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania During the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09
Purfield, Catriona; Rosenberg, Christoph B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The paper traces the Baltics’ adjustment strategy during the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The abrupt end to the externally-financed domestic demand boom triggered a severe output collapse, bringing per capita income levels back to 2005/06 levels. In response to this shock, the Baltics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671289
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Mobilizing Revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa; Empirical Norms and Key Determinants
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
natural resources, are important determinants of tax revenue. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242287
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Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the Mams Model; An Application to Burkina Faso
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This paper analyses economic implications and the transmission mechanisms of different options for creating and using fiscal space. For creating fiscal space, we consider prioritizing expenditures, raising revenue, and scaled-up aid. Fiscal space is used for increasing health and education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540936
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Fiscal Impulses and their Fiscal Impact
Chand, Sheetal K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
Fiscal impulse measures are used in the WEO and elsewhere to indicate the changing impact of the budget on the economy. Such measures are intended to provide more accurate indications of whether the budget is becoming more or less expansionary than would just observing moments in the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248137
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Fiscal Policy in Pakistan Since 1970
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1992
the inflation tax. Accordingly, continued effort is likely to be needed to attain a fiscal position that is sustainable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248177
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Political Economy of Multi-Level Tax Assignments in Latin American Countries; Earmarked Revenue Versus Tax Autonomy
Brosio, Giorgio; Ahmad, Ehtisham - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
A weakness of decentralization and overall tax reforms in Latin America is the lack of attention to adequate taxation … range of subnational tax instruments might be considered, but interactions between new tax assignments and the system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263686
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The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policieson Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries
Disney, Richard - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The paper provides a selective survey of methods and findings concerning the impact of tax and welfare policies on … employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263942
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Increasing Public Sector Revenue in the Philippines; Equity and Efficiency Considerations
Fletcher, Kevin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Public sector revenue has declined markedly in the Philippines over the past seven years. Most observers of the Philippine economy agree that rebuilding public sector revenue will be critical to reducing deficits and ensuring public sector debt sustainability. This paper reviews several of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263953
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Tax Potential vs. Tax Effort; A Cross-Country Analysis of Armenia's Stubbornly Low Tax Collection
Grigorian, David A.; Davoodi, Hamid Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Despite recording double digit growth since 2000, Armenia's tax-to-GDP ratio has been fairly stable at about 14 …½ percent. This paper catalogues a range of factors that may account for Armenia's stubbornly for tax collection by benchmarking … Armenia's tax-to-GDP against some comparator countries and conducting an extensive econometric study of the main determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263986
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Financial Markets and Public Finance in the Transformation Process
Tanzi, Vito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
The paper surveys the role of financial markets and fiscal institutions in the transformation process going on in Eastern and Central Europe. It highlights (a) the need to create some sort of “social ecological balance” necessary for the working of a modern market economy; (b) the need to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264034