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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries

Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012

liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances …Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with …

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Uganda : Managing More Effective Decentralization

Brosio, Giorgio - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BENCHMARK: PRINCIPLES OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM -- III. UGANDA …'S DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS: THE INSTITUTIONS -- IV. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE DELIVERY -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- References. …

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Fiscal Decentralization and Public Subnational Financial Management in Peru.

Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. DECENTRALIZATION AND OVERALL FISCAL CONSTRAINTS -- IV …

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Fiscal Decentralization Improves Social Outcomes When Countries Have Good Governance

Nakatani, Ryota - 2022

Does fiscal decentralization improve health and educational outcomes? Does this improvement depend on the quality of … governance? How do fiscal decentralization and governance interact? We answer these questions through an instrumental variable … Tobit analysis of cross-country panel data. We find negative effects of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes, which …

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Social spending in Korea : can it foster sustainable and inclusive growth?

Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2012

Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....

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What Makes Growth Sustained?

Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008

We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...

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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia

Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2013

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a...

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How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate?The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi's Growth Performance

Basdevant, Olivier - 2009

Over the last thirty years Burundi's low economic growth has led to a significant decline in per capita GDP. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on supply-side constraints that prevented Burundi's economy from growing faster. Lack of investment, civil conflict, economic inefficiencies,...

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Macroeconomic Stability and Inclusive Growth

Davoodi, Hamid - 2021

We survey the literature on the relationship between macroeconomic stability and inclusive growth and identify gaps in our knowledge. We examine the role of macroeconomic policies (fiscal, monetary, macroprudential, and exchange rate) and measures of inclusiveness (income inequality, consumption...

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Fiscal Consolidation in Israel : A Global Fiscal Model Perspective

Elekdag, Selim - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FISCAL PERFORMANCE IN ISRAEL -- III. THE MODEL -- IV. FISCAL CONSOLIDATION: NOW VERSUS LATER -- V. TAX CUTS -- VI. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX. CALIBRATION OF GFM -- REFERENCES.

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