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Public savings in Africa : do sovereign wealth funds serve development?
Addison, Tony; Lebdioui, Amir - 2022
Do sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) contribute to Africa's development? This paper assesses the objectives of SWFs (fiscal stabilization, productive investment, intergenerational saving) and discusses alternatives. We argue that fiscal stabilization funds are often necessary, but entail...
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Fiscal sustainability in the presence of structural breaks : does overconfidence on resource exports hurt government's ability to finance debt? ; evidence from Nigeria
Alhaji Jibrilla, Aliyu - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-27
The sustainability of the Nigerian fiscal deficit along with the role of the dynamics of government revenues and … budget deficit sustainability in the country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487675
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Debt Sustainability, Public Investment, and Natural Resources in Developing Countries : The DIGNAR Model
Melina, Giovanni - 2014
the debt sustainability and macroeconomic effects of public investment plans in resource-abundant developing countries … floors, respectively - are then triggered to maintain debt sustainability. The paper illustrates how the model can be … particularly useful to assess debt sustainability in countries that borrow against future resource revenues to scale up public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055259
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Natural Gas, Public Investment and Debt Sustainability in Mozambique
Melina, Giovanni - 2014
sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055604
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Natural Gas, Public Investment and Debt Sustainability in Mozambique
de Gregorio, Jose - 2014
public capital is accumulated and impact non-resource growth and, ultimately, debt sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061161
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The Curse of Transfers? Modelling Fiscal Policy Effectiveness in Azerbaijan
Aliyev, Khatai - 2020
The article aims to provide a new approach to the modelling of fiscal policy effectiveness in Azerbaijan. It is argued that massive transfer of oil revenues from SOFAZ to state budget after 2008 has sharply declined the impact of budget expenditures over non-oil sector economic performance, so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829193
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Public Investment in a Developing Country Facing Resource Depletion
Alter, Adrian - 2016
country with looming oil exhaustibility concerns. Our results highlight the risks to fiscal and capital sustainability of oil … and debt sustainability in the face of exhaustible and volatile resource revenues, low public investment quality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999764
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Debt and Economic Growth in Developing and Industrial Countries
Schclarek, Alfredo - 2004
This paper empirically explores the relationship between debt and growth for a number of developing and industrial economies. For developing countries, we find that lower total external debt levels are associated with higher growth rates, and that this negative relationship is driven by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208488
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Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries : An Assessment of Projection Performance
Mooney, Henry - 2017
This paper develops new error assessment methods to evaluate the performance of debt sustainability analyses (DSAs) for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942354
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Development Economics and Policy Deficits
Yusuf, Shahid - 2014
More than five years have elapsed since the onset of the Great Recession and to distress of all those affected by the slowdown, a decisive turning point continues to recede into the future. Growth rates are low in the OECD countries (1.25% in 2012-2013) and increasingly sluggish in the...
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