This paper relaxes some key assumptions in the probabilistic approach to fiscal sustainability. First, the authors …

Fiscal sustainability analysis (FSA) is an important component of macroeconomic analysis. The authors review various … realizations of the exogenous variables. Furthermore, the fiscal sustainability tool incorporates an endogenous debt feedback rule …

This paper explores the major challenges to the sustainability of health sector financing in the countries of the … countries in the sub-region could consider in order to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of their health systems. Data …

This paper analyzes Burundi's medium-term fiscal sustainability in the light of the country's vulnerability to various … sustainability. Drawing initially on the standard inter-temporal sustainability framework, the baseline analysis shows that Burundi … policy scenario analysis shows that future fiscal sustainability will hinge on the government's ability to stick to its plans …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …