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Expenditure Composition, Fiscal Adjustment, and Growth in Low-Income Countries
Clements, Benedict J.; Gupta, Sanjeev; Baldacci, Emanuele; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
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
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A New Action-Based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation
Pescatori, Andrea; Leigh, Daniel; Guajardo, Jaime; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
discretionary changes in taxes and government spending primarily motivated by a desire to reduce the budget deficit and not by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151218
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Foreign Aid and Revenue; Still a Crowding Out Effect?
Crivelli, Ernesto; Gupta, Sanjeev; Muthoora, Priscilla S.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
are negatively associated with VAT, excise and income tax revenues, but have a positive relationship with trade taxes. Aid …
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