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Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South Africa

Hollander, Hylton - 2021

Debt-financed fiscal stimulus programmes directly stimulate aggregate demand through government expenditure or tax cuts, but their effectiveness is highly dependent on direct crowding out of private sector expenditure, spillover effects to the private sector through a higher risk premium on...

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Public debt sustainability and debt dynamics : the case of Tanzania

Were, Maureen; Mollel, Lekinyi - 2020

Rising public debt in sub-Saharan Africa remains a matter of concern. We provide an analysis of public debt and debt sustainability in Tanzania, focusing on external debt. Though current and previous analyses using the IMF-World Bank debt sustainability framework indicate low risk of public...

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Resolution of balance of payments crises : emergency financing and debt workouts

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - 2015

This paper analyses the history and effectiveness of the two major mechanisms of resolution of balance of payments crisis. It argues that IMF lending has met its counter-cyclical objectives through history and has been improving in terms of providing adequate lending facilities as well as...

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Taxation and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

Dom, Roel; Morrissey, Oliver; Tagem, Abrams Mbu Enow - 2023

Taxation can contribute to state-building through a tax bargain in which taxpayers are willing to increase compliance … there have also been increases in measures of accountability. Has the increase in taxation promoted improved accountability … of taxation is only observed for vertical accountability (capturing the quality of elections and party competition), and …

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Emerging public debt challenges in sub-Saharan Africa

Were, Maureen - 2024

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)'s public debt burden remains a challenge to development. Key drivers of public debt include large-scale financing of infrastructure development, adverse impact of multiple shocks including COVID-19 pandemic, maturity mismatches, and high vulnerability to exchange rate...

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Government size and risk premium

Kumar, Abhishek; Mallick, Sushanta Kumar - 2024

Given the rise in the government debt level in recent times, this paper aims to examine the effect of an increase in government size on risk premium and its transmission in the economy. We jointly identify the term spread shock (originating at the short end and the long end) and the government...

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Fiscal anchors and sustainable fiscal policy

Siebrits, Krige; Calitz, Estian - 2023

This paper discusses the rationale and options for a fiscal anchor for South Africa and its potential for restoring and maintaining fiscal sustainability. It argues that a well designed fiscal anchor can be useful in the current fiscal milieu, but notes that the popularity of fiscal rules belies...

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Tax-benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda : a feasibility study

Hakizimana, Naphtal; Karangwa, John; Lastunen, Jesse; … - 2022

This paper assesses the feasibility of developing a tax and benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda. Tax-benefit microsimulation can be used to explore ways in which national development goals can be achieved in a cost-effective manner, and to assess the distributional effects of more...

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Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics : the ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017

McNabb, Kyle - 2017

The Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) was launched in September 2014 and, in the few years since, has gone on to be recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policymakers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes. However, as with any such project, successive rounds of...

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The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decades

Oppel, Annalena; McNabb, Kyle; Chachu, Daniel Ofoe - 2022

We utilize the recently updated UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset, which covers key indicators on tax and non-tax revenues for 196 countries since the 1980s, to study the dynamics of government revenue tax collection across selected periods from 1985 up to the most recent available year...

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