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On Improving Public Expenditure Policies for the Poor : Major Informational Requirements

Ahmad, S. Ehtisham - 2006

An improvement in the quality of public expenditures is needed in many countries, given binding macroeconomic and fiscal constraints, and poverty reduction and distributional objectives. This process involves a reassessment of methodology used for this purpose by countries and international...

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Financing Public Investment Through Foreign Aid : Consequences for Economic Growth and Welfare

Chatterjee, Santanu; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2005

generates depend crucially on (i) the elasticity of substitution in production, (ii) whether the aid flow is tied to investment …

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Foreign Aid, Public Investment, and the Informal Economy

Chatterjee, Santanu - 2020

economic expansion by increasing the share of formal production, then re-allocating existing aid to public investment is more …

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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity

International Monetary Fund - 1998

This paper uses a simple model to analyze the forces that determine the size of the public sector and the quality of workers employed in that sector. Workers are heterogeneous, and the public sector chooses an employment strategy that maximizes a social welfare function U(s, Y) that depends on...

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Debt, Investment, and Growth in Developing Countries with Segmented Labor Markets

Buffie, Edward F. - 2020

We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

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