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Angola's incomplete transition
Aguilar, Renato - 2001
Angola’s difficulties in achieving macro-economic stability and economic liberalization have serious implications for private-sector development. Hyperinflation, and frequent policy reversal, constrain and distort investment in both the informal and formal parts of the private sector. But...
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Taxation in Tanzania
Levin, Jörgen - 2001
important component in Tanzania’s economic reform programme the domestic revenue-GDP ratio has remained low. Some of the factors … behind the decline in the tax-GDP ratio over the past years are substantial reductions in external taxes, relative large tax … revenue-GDP ratio reached 17 percent. An alternative option to generate additional revenue would be to increase the tax rates …
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Fiscal policy design in low-income countries
Adam, Christopher S.; Bevan, David L. - 2001
For many low-income countries, there has been an extended period in which fiscal policy was not a choice, or was a choice made by authorities external to the country. For a number of them, this situation is now changing. Their own success in stabilising the economy, coupled with a shift in the...
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Ethiopia's financial sector and its regulation
Addison, Tony; Geda, Alemayehu - 2001
Ethiopia is one of a number of SSA economies that adopted state-led development strategies in the 1970s (others include Angola and Mozambique), and suffered from intense conflict (leading to the fall of the Derg regime in 1991). The new government was therefore faced with the twin tasks of...
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Privatization and economic strategy in Mozambique
Castel-Branco, Carlos; Cramer, Christopher; Hailu, Degol - 2001
Privatization, together with liberalization and deregulation, constituted the core of Mozambique's economic transition. Privatization in Mozambique has taken place on an unusually large scale in comparison with the rest of Africa. Privatization interacted with military demobilization and...
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The fiscal dimensions of Ethiopia's transition and reconstruction
Bevan, David L. - 2001
In 1991, the new Government of Ethiopia faced a triple fiscal challenge. First, a major effort was required to overhaul and modernize the tax system. Second, the need to switch expenditure from military to civilian uses had to take place within a potentially severely reduced resource total. The...
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Fiscal policy, conflict, and reconstruction in Burundi and Rwanda
Ndikumana, Léonce - 2001
The ethnic conflicts in Burundi and Rwanda have severely weakened the economies and worsened the structural fiscal imbalances of these countries. Government revenue has declined due to the erosion of the tax base and tax administration capacity. At the same time, governments have shifted the...
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Conflict and peace-building in Africa: The regional dimensions
Shaw, Timothy M. - 2003
Contemporary Africa reveals a range of causes, consequences and responses to conflicts which are increasingly interrelated as well as regional in character, as around the Great Lakes/Horn. Their economic and non-state features are undeniable, leading to some promising possibilities in terms of...
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Fiscal effects of aid
MacGillivray, Mark; Morrissey, Oliver - 2001
It is clear from the implications of growth theory that the impact of aid depends on how it affects savings, investment and government behaviour. In respect of low-income countries, which are the principal aid recipients and the economies for which the issue of the impact of aid on growth is...
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Debt relief and civil war
Addison, Tony; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001
Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief could help to redress the grievances that contribute...
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