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Expenditure Composition and Distortionary Tax for Equitable Economic Growth

Park, Hyun - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper continues the study of optimal fiscal policy in a growing economy by exploring a case in which the government simultaneously provides three main categories of expenditures with distortionary tax finance: public production services, public consumption services, and state-contingent...

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Globalization and the Future of Social Protection

Tanzi, Vito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect governments’ ability to continue providing this social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax...

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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024

and indirect taxes, direct transfers provided by the social transfers and the school feeding programs, and in …

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Fiscal Sustainability; The Case of Eritrea

Yamauchi, Ayumu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

The paper examines fiscal sustainability issues for the case of Eritrea but has wider implications for addressing fiscal and debt sustainability. It begins with a formal definition and explanation of analytical sustainability indicators, followed by an assessment of the causes of fiscal deficits...

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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare

Matovu, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

financed by consumption taxes; agents do not substitute between human and physical capital as a result of changes in …

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Taxation and Pricing of Petroleum Products in Developing Countries; A Framework for Analysis with Application to Nigeria

Hossain, Shahabuddin Mosherraf - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

setting taxes and/or prices of commodities based on two key criteria, efficiency and equity. The paper shows that for … relevant taxes/subsidies to correct the externalities and to address equity and revenue considerations can be measured with a … reform in Nigeria. The framework outlined in the paper can be applied to the analysis of petroleum product taxes and prices …

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Caribbean Approaches to Economic Stabilization

Hilaire, Alvin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

In the late 1980s Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago found themselves in severe economic difficulties. Their ensuing economic strategies were all market-based, featured fiscal contraction and trade liberalization, multilateral support loans and, later on, tax and financial sector...

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Measuring Fiscal Decentralization; Exploring the IMFâ€™s Databases

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

Conventional wisdom postulates that there are benefits from decentralizing government finances but there is little empirical evidence about actual country practices. This paper presents data on fiscal decentralization for about 80 countries over a period of about 20 years (1990-2008) from the...

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Money isn't Everything; The Challenge of Scaling Up Aid to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Ethiopia

Mattina, Todd D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper outlines the challenge of developing an operational macroeconomic framework in Ethiopia consistent with the large envisaged scaling up of aid to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper describes an MDG scenario that addresses both microeconomic and macroeconomic...

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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

at the subnational government. A reliance on shared taxes with extensive earmarking leads to weak subnational …

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