Similar Search Results

Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor); … - 2007

find strong evidence of fungibility at the aggregate level: almost 70 percent of total aid is fungible in our sample. We … also find that investment aid is more fungible than other categories of aid. In the presence of fungibility, there is no …This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607741

The impact of government spending on GDP in a remitting country

Al-Abri, Almukhtar S.; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2018

The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881574

COVID-19 private pension withdrawals and unemployment tenures

Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert; Watson, Timothy - 2022

additional pandemic fiscal expenditure. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273943

The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within … losses is more rapid. Yet, the long-run response is symmetric. The tax response is particularly slow, stretching over more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518088

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

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

-kind transfers generated by public services in health and education. The results show that Grenada has a tax system that is neutral … on the VAT side and progressive on the personal income tax side. Furthermore, direct transfers make a modest contribution …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486374

Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies

Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017

Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613140

Fiscal multipliers in the COVID-19 recession

Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; McCrory, Peter B. - 2021

In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, little is known about the effectiveness of fiscal policy in the current environment with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705410