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Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation …, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a general concern that the tax expenditures … systems. Many countries in Latin American and a few in the Caribbean already estimate their tax expenditures; but in many …
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A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. These "special" zones are given a range of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which are not available to firms located in the...
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This document analyzes the patterns of fiscal and monetary policy in five economies of the Latin American Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) during four episodes of international crises: 1994, 1997-1999, 2001 and 2008. In contrast with earlier episodes when most...
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This paper seeks to identify the most promising fiscal strategy to boost long-term economic growth in Argentina and quantify its effects. To this end, the authors updated a growth-diagnostics study for Argentina and corroborated that low appropriability of social returns and insufficient public...
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This paper introduces the Consumer Expectations Survey (CES), a new online, high frequency panel survey of euro area consumers' expectations and behaviour. The paper also investigates whether public perceptions about fiscal support measures introduced during the pandemic have influenced spending...
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This paper analyzes the effects of recent Venezuelan immigration to Colombia on the fiscal balance, the labor market, and economic growth. For this purpose, we built a dynamic general equilibrium model with a search and matching structure in the labor market. The higher fiscal spending to...
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run, as well as a decline in sovereign and systemic stress. Debt over GDP negatively influences growth for the periphery … to non-financial corporations positively affect the core euro area. An increase in global GDP also supports growth in the …
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expenditures recover once social distancing restrictions are lifted or whether the COVID-19 crisis has a sustained impact on …
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