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Creating a poverty map for Azerbaijan
Baschieri, Angela - 2005
indices, using existing census data. This paper develops a set of poverty maps for Azerbaijan that can be used by different …""Poverty maps"-that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly … used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed poverty maps in many low resource settings …
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Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor
Keefer, Philip - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523273
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Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
Ravallion, Martin - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524756
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Changing trade patterns after conflict resolution in South Caucasus
Polyakov, Evgeny - 2001
Peace in the South Caucasus will improve the region's economies in different ways. How much they will benefit depends on the strength of their supply response to demand in opening markets. The poor business environment and incomplete industrial restructuring act as constraints on export performance
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524040
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Black hole or black gold? : the impact of oil and gas prices on Indonesia's public finance
Agustina, Rosa (contributor) - 2008
"Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal position in 2008 and beyond. It analyzes the interactions between government revenues and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521041
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Management of oil windfalls in Mexico : historical experience and policy options for the future
Everhart, Stephen - 2001
Policy options for protecting Mexico's economy from volatility in oil revenues without eliminating the benefits from rising prices include a stablilizaton fund and hedging strategies on international markets. A stabilization fund and hedging strategies can complement each other, the fund working...
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Legislative frameworks used to foster petroleum development
Onorato, William Torrens - 1995
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Fungibility and the impact of development assistance : evidence from Vietnam's health sector
Wagstaff, Adam (contributor) - 2008
"How can the impact of aid be estimated in the presence of fungibility? And how far does fungibility reduce its benefits? These questions are analyzed in a context where a donor wants to target its efforts on a specific sector and specific geographic areas. A traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520959
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The quality of fiscal adjustment and the long-run growth impact of fiscal policy in Brazil
Blanco, Fernando - 2006
"The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to raise the primary surplus in response to external shocks, (2) the pro-cyclical nature of fiscal policy, and (3) the long-run impact of government expenditure composition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522058
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Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth : the public expenditure connection
Lederman, Daniel - 2006
"This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522158