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This paper analyzes the procyclicality of fiscal policy on the tax and spending sides in a sample of 116 developing countries between 2000 and 2016. About 20 percent of the countries in the sample switched from procyclical to countercyclical policy stance. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 30 of 39...
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Recent estimates of the welfare cost of consumption volatility find that it is significant in developing nations, where … it may reach an equivalent of reducing consumption by 10 percent per year. Hence, examining the determinants of … consumption volatility is of utmost relevance. Based on cross-country data for the period 1960-2005, the paper explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521126
increasing government consumption and transfer payments on GDP. These results shed light on the contribution of fiscal policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522058
"Despite significant progress in economic reform throughout the 1990s and an exemplary development of the policymaking framework in the second part of the decade, Brazil suffered a major public debt and currency crisis in 2002. Though the political origin of the uncertainty cannot be ignored,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522687
Recent estimates of the welfare cost of consumption volatility find that it is significant in developing nations, where … it may reach an equivalent of reducing consumption by 10 percent per year. Hence, examining the determinants of … consumption volatility is of utmost relevance. Based on cross-country data for the period 1960-2005, the paper explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552418
increasing government consumption and transfer payments on GDP. These results shed light on the contribution of fiscal policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553826
Despite significant progress in economic reform throughout the 1990s, and an exemplary development of the policymaking framework in the second part of the decade, Brazil suffered a major public debt and currency crisis in 2002. Though the political origin of the uncertainty cannot be ignored,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553970
Recent estimates of the welfare cost of consumption volatility find that it is significant in developing nations, where … it may reach an equivalent of reducing consumption by 10 percent per year. Hence, examining the determinants of … consumption volatility is of utmost relevance. Based on cross-country data for the period 1960-2005, the paper explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747289
increasing government consumption and transfer payments on GDP. These results shed light on the contribution of fiscal policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747922
Despite significant progress in economic reform throughout the 1990s and an exemplary development of the policymaking framework in the second part of the decade, Brazil suffered a major public debt and currency crisis in 2002. Though the political origin of the uncertainty cannot be ignored,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066997