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Kyrgyz Republic; 2013 Article IV Consultation and Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Perfor...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

The shift to a parliamentary democracy in 2010 provided an impetus for the Kyrgyz Republic to reform the economy. Despite the recent progress, the Kyrgyz Republic faces significant economic challenges, which will require actions on many fronts. Improving the business climate, governance, and...

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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?

Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...

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GOVERNMENT DOMESTIC DEBT AND THE RISK OF DEFAULT: A POLITICAL-ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF DEBT.

Aghion, P.; Bolton, P. - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1989

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Economic Growth and Integration in Central America

Schipke, Alfred; Desruelle, Dominique - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

system development, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, and ways to sustain progress in reducing inflation by strengthening the …

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Cyclical Patterns in Government Health Expenditures Between 1995 and 2010

Velenyi, Edit V.; Smitz, Marc F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...

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Taking Stock of Fiscal Health: Trends in Global, Regional, and Country Level Health Financing

Fleisher, Lisa; Leive, Adam; Schieber, George - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This note analyzes levels and trends of health expenditures by country, income group, and region in the context of overall government revenue, expenditure, and GDP trends between 1995 and 2010. The study uses available data from the World Health Organization's (WHO) National Health Accounts, the...

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Political-ideological circumstances and local authorities' debt: Evidence from Portuguese municipalities

Baptista Ribeiro, Nuno Adriano; Faustino Jorge, Susana … - In: Contemporary Economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 155-170

their debt level, considering evidence from Portugal for the period 2004 - 2013. A static panel data model is applied …-electoral cycle, allowing the conclusion that, given the evidence from Portuguese municipalities, debt increases in election years … local authorities' debt levels. It is also clear that the financial crisis in the period 2008 - 2010 likewise had a positive …

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Political-ideological circumstances and local authorities' debt : evidence from Portuguese municipalities

Baptista Ribeiro, Nuno Adriano; Faustino Jorge, Susana … - In: Contemporary economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 155-170

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Evaluation of regional debt ratings through discriminant analysis

Fernández Llera, Roberto - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2006) 8, pp. 105-122

Transparency is a necessary condition in order to financial market could exert an adequate discipline over public agents’ borrowing policy. In federal and decentralized countries, the risk of insolvency is bigger, given that expenditure and revenue policies are shared among several tiers of...

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On the determinants of local government debt: Does one size fit all?

Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2013

This paper analyzes the factors that directly influence levels of debt in Spanish local governments. Specifically, the … varying effect of each covariate depending on each municipality’s specific debt level, which suggests that economic policy …

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