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Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing : Evidence From Global Food Aid
Tiongson, Erwin - 2003
Global food aid is considered a critical consumption smoothing mechanism in many countries. However, its record of stabilizing consumption has been mixed. This paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid with respect to food availability in recipient countries, with a view to assessing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404009
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Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing : Evidence from Global Food Aid
Gupta, Sanjeev; Clements, Benedict; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2015
The paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid with respect to food availability in recipient countries, with a view to assessing its impact on consumption in some 150 developing countries and transition economies, covering 1970 to 2000. The results show that global food aid has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070348
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Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing : Evidence from Global Food Aid
Gupta, Sanjeev; Clements, Benedict; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2021
Global food aid is considered a critical consumption smoothing mechanism in many countries. However, its record of stabilizing consumption has been mixed. This paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid with respect to food availability in recipient countries, with a view to assessing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318020
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Investing in Growth
Arslanalp, Serkan - 2011
' growth prospects. But more important than whether a country can expand its public investment in infrastructure is whether it … should. Unfortunately, the results of studies on public investment's impact on growth are unclear, leading many to conclude … developing economies during 1960–2001, finds that public investment generally has a positive impact on growth. Furthermore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122447
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Does higher government spending buy better results in education and health care?
Gupta, Sanjeev; Verhoeven, Marijn; Tiongson, Erwin - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001369838
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The IMF and income distribution
Clements, Benedict J.; Gaspar, Vítor; Gupta, Sanjeev; … - In: Inequality and fiscal policy, (pp. 21-36). 2015
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Fiscal redistribution in developing countries : overview of policy issues and options
Bastagli, Francesca; Coady, David P.; Gupta, Sanjeev - In: Inequality and fiscal policy, (pp. 57-76). 2015
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Digital revolutions in public finance
Gupta, Sanjeev (ed.); Keen, Michael (ed.); Shah, Alpa (ed.);  … - 2017
Digitization promises to reshape fiscal policy by transforming how governments collect, process, share, and act on information. More and higher-quality information can improve not only policy design for tax and spending, but also systems for their management, including tax administration and...
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Resource blessing, revenue curse? : domestic revenue effort in resource-rich countries
Crivelli, Ernesto; Gupta, Sanjeev - In: European journal of political economy 35 (2014), pp. 88-101
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Budget institutions in low-income countries : lessons from G-20
Gupta, Sanjeev; Ylaoutinen, Sami - 2014
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