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Public finance, aid, and post-conflict recovery
Boyce, James K. - 2007
In the wake of violent conflict, a key element of building a durable peace is building a state with the ability to collect and manage public resources. To implement peace accords and provide public services, the government must be able to collect revenue, allocate resources, and manage...
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Public finance, aid and post-conflict recovery
Boyce, James K. - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2007
In the wake of violent conflict, a key element of building a durable peace is building a state with the ability to collect and manage public resources. To implement peace accords and provide public services, the government must be able to collect revenue, allocate resources, and manage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005533168
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Public finance, aid, and post-conflict recovery
Boyce, James K. (contributor) - 2007
decisions? (iv) Lastly, is there scope for more innovative solutions to postwar legacies of external debts? -- peacebuilding …
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization and Peacebuilding
Boyce, James - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2008
are motivated entirely by the objective of peacebuilding. This paper reviews evidence on the impact of aid in “post … how economic assistance and conditionalities can be realigned to better serve peacebuilding objectives. Part II considers … the other side of the coin: how peacekeeping operations and peacebuilding assistance can better support economic recovery …
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A scientific note on the Italian Mini BOTs and the proposal of the CCCFs
Saccal, Alessandro - 2024
This note shows that the Italian Mini BOTs proposed in 2019 bore the potential neither to become Italian legal tender nor to practically increase Italian government debt, but to practically cause a mere reduction in taxation and thence in government spending or transfers. Since the Eurozone...
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Who Pays Taxes and Who Receives Government Spending? An Analysis of Federal, State and Local Tax and Spending Distributions, 1991-2004
Chamberlain, Andrew - 2014
While the U.S. tax system is progressive, the distribution of government spending makes the overall fiscal system more progressive than is apparent from tax distributions alone. Using a microdata model we estimate the distribution of federal, state and local taxes and spending between 1991 and...
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Fiscal Consolidations and Growth : Does Speed Matter?
Pennings, Steven - 2013
Should fiscal consolidations be front-loaded or proceed at a more steady pace, and how does this affect growth? We make an attempt to address this question using a three-step methodology. First, we modify a standard regression of growth on consolidation size to allow speed to affect the...
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December fever in public finance
Eichenauer, Vera - 2020
Public spending often increases at the end of fiscal years. This is undesirable because late spending tends to be inefficient. The causes for these spending spikes are however poorly understood. This paper offers a novel identification strategy that relies on the historic variation in countries'...
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The causal links between aid and government expenditures
Marć, Łukasz - 2014
The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an improvement in the use of government resources as a result of...
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The impact of aid on total government expenditures : new evidence on fungibility
Marć, Łukasz - 2015
Aid is said to be fungible at the aggregate level if it raises government expenditures by less than the total amount. This happens when the recipient government decreases domestic revenue, decreases net borrowing, or when aid bypasses the budget. This study makes three contributions to both...
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