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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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A Commodity Curse? The Dynamic Effects of Commodity Prices on Fiscal Performance in Latin America
Medina, Leandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The recent boom and bust in commodity prices has raised concerns about the impact of volatile commodity prices on Latin American countries’ fiscal positions. Using a novel quarterly dataset─ which includes unique country specific commodity price indices and a comprehensive measure of public...
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Fiscal Policy during the current Crisis
Bunea-Bontas, Cristina Aurora; Petre, Mihaela Cosmina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Fiscal policy is an important government tool for managing the economy, having the ability to affect the total amount of output produced - GDP. Changes in the level and composition of government spending, taxation or other instruments of fiscal policy have impact on aggregate demand, the pattern...
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How do Different Government Spending Categories Impact on Private Consumption and the Real Exchange Rate?
Baldi, Guido - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The macroeconomic literature has found puzzling effects of government spending on private consumption, the real exchange rate and the terms of trade. Some authors find that private consumption increases after a shock to government spending, while others report a decrease. The same ambiguity can...
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Measuring fiscal stance for the United Kingdom, 1920-1990
van der Eng, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a very concise way of measuring fiscal stance. This procedure is based on the assumption that the ‘neutral change’ in the government budget can best be simulated with a long-term approximation of the underlying trend of total output....
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Efectos macroeconómicos de la política fiscal: Evidencia empírica para Bolivia
Cernadas, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a Structural Vector Autoregression approach (SVAR), the paper estimates the response of output, price levels, private investment and consumption to expansive and contractive fiscal shocks. The results show that government spending shocks have a positive effect on GDP. On the other hand, a...
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Public Financial Management in Indonesia : Review of Islamic Public Finance
Jaelani, Aan - 2017
Public financial management by the government is very important in view of the level of welfare in Indonesia is still low, as there are still much poverty with the level of fulfillment of the needs of low, corruption that occurs in every area of government, income distribution is uneven, low...
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Degrowth and sustainable public finance
Pasche, Markus - 2018
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Public procurement: a case study of the Indian Railways
Nag, Bodhibrata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
extent of vertical integration are gigantic. This paper undertakes a critical examination of its procurement process to … paper examines issues such as organizational structure, procurement organization, source selection methodology, procurement … oversight and regulation and their impact on the economy, efficiency, transparency and accountability aspects of procurement. It …
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Multi-dimensional auctions under information asymmetry for costs and qualities
Papakonstantinou, A.; Bogetoft, P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper discusses the design of a novel multi-dimensional mechanism which allows a principal to procure a single project or an item from multiple suppliers through a two-step payment. The suppliers are capable of producing different qualities at costs which cannot exceed a certain value and...
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