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Energy subsidies and public social spending : theory and evidence

Ebeke, Christian; Ngouana, Constant Lonkeng - 2015

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Power it up : strengthening the electricity sector to improve efficiency and support economic activity

Di Bella, Gabriel; Grigoli, Francesco - 2016

Poor performance of the electricity sector remains a drag to economic efficiency and a bottleneck to economic activity in many low-income countries. This paper proposes a number of models that account for different equilibria (some better, some worse) of the electricity sector. They show how...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705680

Investing in electricity, growth, and debt sustainability : the case of Lesotho

Andreolli, Michele; Abdychev, Aidar - 2016

on the growth and debt sustainability. The paper employs an open economy dynamic general equilibrium model to assess the … benefits of a large public investment through growth-enhancing increase in domestic energy supply and receipts from selling …

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Energy Subsidies and Public Social Spending : Theory and Evidence

Ebeke, Christian - 2015

This paper shows that high energy subsidies and low public social spending can emerge as an equilibrium outcome of a ….6 percentage point of GDP in countries where energy subsidies were 1 percentage point of GDP higher. Moreover, we find that the …

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Assessing Dutch fiscal and debt sustainability

Carton, Benjamin; Fouejieu, Armand - 2020

debt sustainability over the next decade, taking into account alternative recovery scenarios and associated fiscal … persistent economic effects of the pandemic, risks to the Dutch fiscal and debt sustainability would remain contained …

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Back to the future : fiscal rules for regaining sustainability in Belize

Cevik, Serhan - 2019

This paper assesses the cyclicality and sustainability of fiscal policy in Belize and applies a stochastic simulation … debt sustainability. It recommends integrating such rules into a well-designed fiscal responsibility law and establishing …