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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?
Bleaney, Michael - 2017
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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How Do Governments Respond after Catastrophes? Natural-Disaster Shocks and the Fiscal Stance
Melecky, Martin - 2017
Natural disasters could constitute a major shock to public finances and debt sustainability because of their impact on output and the need for reconstruction and relief expenses. This paper uses a panel vector autoregressive model to systematically estimate the impact of geological, climatic,...
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Increasing Public Expenditure Efficiency in Oil-Rich Economies : A Proposal
Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2017
This paper proposes that, to increase the efficiency of public spending in oil-rich economies, some or all of the oil revenues be transferred to citizens, and fiscal instruments such as taxation be used to finance public expenditures. The authors develop the case as follows. First, they confirm...
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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set
Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017
This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to...
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Electoral Accountability and Local Government Spending in Indonesia
Narayan, Ambar - 2017
This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double-difference estimator to measure impacts on (i) human development outcomes and (ii) the pattern of public spending and revenue generation at the district level. The analysis reveals that...
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Agriculture Public Spending and Growth in Indonesia
Blanco Armas, Enrique - 2017
This paper analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as the … public spending on fertilizer subsidies had the opposite effect. The composition of spending patterns in Indonesia over the … findings about the impact of overall public spending on growth, with a particular focus on Indonesia, followed by an analysis …
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Investing in Indonesia's Education : Allocation, Equity, and Efficiency of Public Expenditures
Arze del Granado, F. Javier - 2016
What are the current trends and main characteristics of public education spending in Indonesia? Is education spending … insufficient? Are expenditures in education efficient and equitable? This study reports the first account of Indonesia's aggregated … education enrollment. It concludes that the current challenges in Indonesia are no longer defined by the need of additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747633
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Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases
Do, Quy-Toan - 2018
effective. This paper conducts a case study of environmental policy in India, focusing on unprecedented Supreme Court rulings …
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