Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 18,000
Cover Image
The role of social and physical infrastructure spending in tradable and non-tradable growth
Hasanov, Fakhri J.; Mikayilov, Jeyhun I.; Yusifov, Sabuhi; … - In: Contemporary economics 13 (2019) 1, pp. 79-98
This study investigates the impact of social and physical infrastructure spending on the non-oil tradable and non-tradable sectors while controlling for non-oil capital stock and employment in the Azerbaijani economy for the period 1995-2014. The analysis employs the Engle-Granger and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176226
Cover Image
The De-industrialization Process In Azerbaijan: Dutch Disease Syndrome Revisited
Niftiyev, Ibrahim - 2020
This paper focuses on the de-industrialization processes of Azerbaijan adopting the Dutch disease syndrome as the … sector compared to the booming sector, and the services sector. In order to shed light on this aspect of the Azerbaijan … disease phenomena to Azerbaijan's economy, connecting it to the deindustrialization process on employment, output, and trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383819
Cover Image
Fiscal Space for Social Protection and the SDGs : Options to Expand Social Investments in 187 Countries
Ortiz, Isabel; Cummins, Matthew; Karunanethy, Kalaivani - 2017
It is often argued that social protection is not affordable or that government expenditure cuts are inevitable during adjustment periods. But there are alternatives, even in the poorest countries. This working paper offers eight options that should be explored to expand fiscal space and generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036131
Cover Image
Study on quality of public finances in support of growth in the mediterranean partner countries of the EU
De Wulf, Luc; Coutinho, Leonor; Sassanpour, Cyrus; … - 2010
Until the early 1990s, the discussions on fiscal policy primarily centered on the functions of economic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy was often not sufficiently tailored to the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326589
Cover Image
Study on quality of public finances in support of growth in the mediterranean partner countries of the EU
De Wulf, Luc; Coutinho, Leonor; Sassanpour, Cyrus; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736763
Cover Image
Study on Quality of Public Finances in Support of Growth in the Mediterranean Partner Countries of the EU
Coutinho, Leonor - 2010
Until the early 1990s, the discussions on fiscal policy primarily centered on the functions of economic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy was often not sufficiently tailored to the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135700
Cover Image
Towards Overcoming the Conflict between Environmental Tax Leakage and Border Tax Adjustment Concessions for Developing Countries
Truby, Jon M. - 2011
Border tax adjustments (BTAs) may be able to alleviate concerns of reduced competitiveness for countries introducing environmental taxes and standards, while limiting the risk of companies relocating to developing countries to exploit lax environmental regimes - known as leakage. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119311
Cover Image
Vietnam's Development Success Story and the Unfinished SDG Agenda
Baum, Anja - 2020
Despite starting as one of the poorest countries in the mid-1980s, Vietnam has achieved rapid developmental progress, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839679
Cover Image
The Role of Social and Physical Infrastructure Spending in Tradable and Non-Tradable Growth
Fakhri, Hasanov Javanshir - 2019
This study investigates the impact of social and physical infrastructure spending on the non-oil tradable and non-tradable sectors while controlling for non-oil capital stock and employment in the Azerbaijani economy for the period 1995-2014. The analysis employs the Engle-Granger and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870984
Cover Image
Public Budgeting, a Challenge for Development in Africa : Evidence from Kenya
Mburu, Henry - 2014
In this paper public budgeting in Kenya as evidence of challenges for development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is examined. Tracing the efforts made by the Kenya government since independence in 1963 to 2012, successes, failures, and challenges to successful public budgeting regime in the country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049719