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Accounting Challenges for Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs) in Developing Countries
Terkper, Seth E. - 2008
fiscal and financial accounting obligations. SARAs are legal entities, such as a service or a department, which are required … to prepare accrual records that may diverge from a treasury's cash accounting records. Their records reflect revenues … generated; budget funds for generating the revenues; and material programs administered for other agencies. The accounting …
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Procyclicality and Fair Value Accounting
Scarlata, Jodi G. - 2009
empirical examination of the potential procyclicality that fair value accounting (FVA) could introduce in bank balance sheets … refined disclosures can mitigate the procyclicality of FVA. Going forward, the valuation approaches for accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677720
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Evolution of debt sustainability analysis in low-income countries : some aggregate evidence
Baduel, Benedicte; Price, Robert W. - 2012
The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) for low-income countries (LICs) is a standardized analytical tool to monitor debt sustainability. This paper uses DSAs from three periods around the time of the global economic crisis to analyze the projected trajectories of debt ratios for a sample of...
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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries
McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012
The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...
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Public investment, growth, and debt sustainability : putting together the pieces
Buffie, Edward E.; Berg, Andrew; Pattillo, Catherine A.; … - 2012
We develop a model to study the macroeconomic effects of public investment surges in low-income countries, making explicit: (i) the investment-growth linkages; (ii) public external and domestic debt accumulation; (iii) the fiscal policy reactions necessary to ensure debt-sustainability; and (iv)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618586
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Financial intermediation costs in low-income countries : the role of regulatory, institutional, and macroeconomic factors
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2012
We analyze factors driving persistently higher financial intermediation costs in low-income countries (LICs) relative to emerging market (EMs) country comparators. Using the net interest margin as a proxy for financial intermediation costs at the bank level, we find that within LICs a...
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Tariff-tax reforms in large economies
Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha - 2012
This paper studies tariff-tax reforms in a calibrated two-region global New Keynesian model composed of a developing and an advanced region. In our baseline calibration, a revenue-neutral reform that lowers tariffs in developing countries can reduce domestic welfare. The reason is that the...
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Fiscal Policy over the Election Cycle in Low-Income Countries
Ebeke, Christian - 2013
Focusing on Low-Income Countries, we investigate the behavior of fiscal variables during and after elections. The results indicate that during election years, government consumption significantly increases and leads to higher fiscal deficits. During the two years following elections, the fiscal...
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The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid
Mongardini, Joannes - 2009
This paper assesses the macroeconomic implications of scaling up aid for Benin in line with the Gleneagles commitment to double aid to poor countries over the next three years to reach 85 per capita by 2010 and keep it at that level thereafter. The analysis suggests that the additional aid...
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Development Aid and Economic Growth
Reddy, Sanjay - 2009
We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...
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