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Better Spending, Better Services : A Review of Public Finances in Haiti, Overview
World Bank Group - 2016
with development projects that had begun before the disaster. Six years later, the flow of aid is declining, and Haiti …
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Mongolia : Growing without Undue Borrowing - Enhancing Efficiency of Spending and Revenue
World Bank Group - 2018
This report, the full PER, aims to undertake a detailed analysis of the recent trends in publicexpenditures and revenue with a view to helping Mongolia's policy makers and opinion leaders identify the main priorities for a successful implementation of its ongoing recovery program. It also...
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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?
Bleaney, Michael - 2016
Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters...
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The reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters : evidence from Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Strobl, Eric; Tveit, Thomas - 2018
This paper combines district-level government spending data from Indonesia and natural disaster damage indices to … investment in durable assets both in the year of the disaster as well as the following year. Overall, these results highlight the … potentially useful role of a national disaster risk financing insurance program toward maintaining a relatively stable level of …
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Public Expenditure following Disasters
Bevan, David - 2015
account. The changes of interest are those that would take place under a given sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance …
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Candle in the wind? : energy system resilience to natural shocks : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Obolensky, Marguerite; Kornejew, Martin - 2019
This study finds that natural shocks-storms in particular-are a significant and often leading cause for power supply disruptions. This finding is based on 20 years of high frequency (i.e. daily) data on power outages and climate variables in 28 countries-Bangladesh, the United States and 26...
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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers
World Bank Group - 2019
Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster … response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing … have the potential to significantly enhance and boost systems for financial resilience against disaster shocks. Development …
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Subdued potential growth : sources and remedies
Çelik, Sinem Kılıç; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2020
Global potential output growth has been flagging. At 2.5 percent in 2013-17, post-crisis potential growth is 0.5 percentage point below its longer-term average and 0.9 percentage point below its average a decade ago. Compared with a decade ago, potential growth has declined 0.8 percentage point...
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Global inflation synchronization
Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2019
The paper studies the extent of global inflation synchronization using a dynamic factor model in a large set of countries over a half century. The authors' methodology allows them to account for differences across groups of countries (advanced economies and emerging market and developing...
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The effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging economies
Lartey, Emmanuel - 2018
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging economies, incorporating an assessment of the extent to which exchange rate regimes impact the relationship. The main findings suggest there is a positive effect of remittances on the...
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