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reassessed by taking into account lessons from the current crisis: the share of government borrowing in foreign currency will …
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Indonesia's fiscal position is generally sound and policy making prudent. However, the country still faces important challenges in terms of economic and social development. Infrastructure, education, health and social security are all spending areas that the government is trying to improve...
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indicators combines information on the mix of public spending. Each spending item share is multiplied with an estimated … up to an aggregate inclusive growth indicator. The spending mix analysis cannot, however, measure the effectiveness of … provides an indicative overall indicator on the effects of public spending on inclusive growth. The analysis suggests that …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of the size and the composition of public spending on long-term growth and inequality. An estimated baseline convergence model captures the long-term effect of human capital and total investment on potential output for a panel of OECD countries. The...
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This paper reviews the key issues concerning the impact of public spending and taxation on long-run growth and inequality and takes stock of existing theoretical and empirical studies. Overall, the evidence highlights that the size of the government matters for long-term growth as a too large...
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analysis the reaction of property tax revenues to house prices. It then analyses a house price reaction function looking at the …-to-GDP share slows down house price increases and that higher property taxation tends to reduce house price volatility. …
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Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...
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This paper provides empirical analysis that measures the cyclical properties of intergovernmental transfers (or grants … determined as a share of central government tax revenue, which itself tends to fluctuate with the cycle. Moreover, many grants …
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Using an estimated DSGE model for Hungary, the paper identifies the possible non-Keynesian channels through which a fiscal consolidation may manifest as expansionary. Simulations show that fiscal consolidation policies are typically contractionary. Nevertheless, taking into account some specific...
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The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...
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