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Indonesia; Implementing National Policies in a Decentralized Context: Special Purpose Programs to Protect the Poor
Ahmad, Ehtisham; Leruth, Luc E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
In the context of continuing adjustments in the economy, the Government of Indonesia proposes to bring energy prices closer to long run marginal cost, while adequately compensating the poor. We focus on the constraints on central government policy objectives towards the poor as decentralization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263761
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Reforming Government Subsidies in the New Member States of the European Union
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex; Koranchelian, Taline; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
) were carried out in the EU-10 during 1995–2005, and explains observed variations across types of subsidies and across … subsidies. 32B …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263811
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Increasing Public Sector Revenue in the Philippines; Equity and Efficiency Considerations
Fletcher, Kevin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Public sector revenue has declined markedly in the Philippines over the past seven years. Most observers of the Philippine economy agree that rebuilding public sector revenue will be critical to reducing deficits and ensuring public sector debt sustainability. This paper reviews several of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263953
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Tax Potential vs. Tax Effort; A Cross-Country Analysis of Armenia's Stubbornly Low Tax Collection
Grigorian, David A.; Davoodi, Hamid Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Despite recording double digit growth since 2000, Armenia's tax-to-GDP ratio has been fairly stable at about 14½ percent. This paper catalogues a range of factors that may account for Armenia's stubbornly for tax collection by benchmarking Armenia's tax-to-GDP against some comparator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263986
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Mortality and Lifetime Income; Evidence From U.S. Social Security Records
Greenlees, John S.; Duggan, James E.; Gillingham, Robert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas and broad population groups and do not distinguish disabled and nondisabled persons. We investigate the relationship between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264236
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Burkina Faso; Policies to Protect the Poor From the Impact of Food and Energy Price Increases
Adenauer, Isabell; Granado, Javier Arze del - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper assesses the effectiveness of policies taken by the Burkinabè authorities to protect the poor from the adverse impact of a combined food and oil price shock in 2008. Estimates of the impact based on household survey data and a price pass-through model suggest that these policies were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293765
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Using Credit Subsidies to Counteract a Credit Bust; Evidence From Serbia
Podpiera, Jiri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
cycles remains unsettled, it has been conjectured that credit subsidies may provide a particularly effective policy tool to … counter a credit bust. This paper reports on a rare policy experiment where credit subsidies were used to buffer the impact of … the global financial crisis on Serbia in 2009. Model simulations suggest that credit subsidies in Serbia helped to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401189
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Iran; The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform
Guillaume, Dominique M.; Zytek, Roman; Farzin, Mohammad Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
major oil-exporting country to reduce substantially implicit energy subsidies. This paper reviews the economic and technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203528
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Public Expenditure Policy and the Environment; A Review and Synthesis
Miranda, Kenneth M.; Parry, Ian W.H.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
subsidies, increased operations and maintenance expenditures, and a thorough environmental assessment of capital projects will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825826
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Subsidy Reforms and Poverty Alleviation
Bhambhri, Chandra Prakash; Chander, Parkash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper presents a general framework for characterizing the optimal pattern of subsidies for poverty alleviation … under budgetary constraints and suggests possible reforms for the existing pattern of subsidies. The government may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825884