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Do fiscal rules cause fiscal discipline over the electoral cycle?
Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Joanis, Marcelin - 2019
institutional design, whether they have been in place for a long time and finally on the degree of competitiveness of elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155128
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Price Controls and Electoral Cycles
Asilis, Carlos M. - 1993
This paper studies the interactions between electoral considerations and the imposition of price controls by opportunistic policymakers. The analysis shows that a policy cycle emerges in which price controls are imposed in periods leading to the election, and removed immediately afterwards. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398107
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Political Business Cycles and Expenditure Policies in Developing Countries
Schuknecht, Ludger - 1994
The paper studies empirically fiscal policies around elections in 35 developing countries. It finds that governments try to improve their reelection prospects with the help of expansionary expenditure policies. Rising fiscal deficits before elections are followed by fiscal consolidation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398042
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Characterizing the Expenditure Uncertainties of Industrial Countries in the 21st Century
Heller, Peter S. - 2005
A number of uncertainties about long-term expenditure commitments in industrial countries are examined: (i) the assumptions underlying the projections, (ii) the potential to further reduce non-age-related expenditures, (iii) the implicitly assumed absence of ""shocks,"" and (iv) the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400928
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A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa
Lienert, Ian - 2003
This paper assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the French and British public expenditure management systems as used in Africa. The main differences are in budget execution and government accounting. In both francophone and anglophone Africa, there are common weaknesses in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403636
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Expenditure Ceilings : A Survey
Ljungman, Gösta - 2008
This paper looks at the factors that have to be considered when designing an aggregate expenditure ceiling. It is argued that expenditure ceilings are effective in promoting fiscal discipline and sustainability, but that a number of trade-offs have to be made when setting up a fiscal framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401515
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British Influenceon Commonwealth Budget Systems : The Case of the United Republic of Tanzania
Lienert, Ian - 2007
Several features of Tanzania''s budget system find their roots in the arrangements inherited from the United Kingdom. These include a legal framework that emphasizes accountability; a cabinet of ministers with strong budget decision-making powers; a parliament with very limited budget powers;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401080
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Does inflation slow long-run growth in India?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - 2014
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The influence of gender budgeting in Indian states on gender inequality and fiscal spending
Stotsky, Janet G.; Zaman, Asad - 2016
This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715650
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The Demographic Dividend : Evidence From the Indian States
Mody, Ashoka - 2011
makes progress by focusing on India, which will be the largest individual contributor to the global demographic transition …-state migration. The results imply that a substantial fraction of the growth acceleration that India has experienced since the 1980s … demographic dividend could add about 2 percentage points per annum to India’s per capita GDP growth over the next two decades …
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