1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464245603321

Autore

Ter-Minassian Teresa

Titolo

Creating sustainable fiscal space for infrastructure : the case of Tanzania / / Teresa Ter-Minassian, Richard Hughes, and Alejandro Hajdenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, District of Columbia] : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4623-6083-1

1-4527-5109-9

9786612842078

1-282-84207-2

1-4518-7114-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/256

Altri autori (Persone)

HughesRichard

HajdenbergAlejandro

Disciplina

363

Soggetti

Infrastructure (Economics) - Tanzania

Fiscal policy - Tanzania

Electronic books.

Tanzania Economic policy

Tanzania Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENT, AND GROWTH: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE; A. Infrastructure and Growth; B. Public Investment and Growth; III. ASSESSING TANZANIA'S INFRASTRUCTURE NEED; A. Physical Indicators of Infrastructure Coverage, Quality and Access in Tanzania; TABLES; 1: Infrastructure Indicators in Selected Countries; FIGURES; 1: Logistics Performance Index; B. Public Investment in Infrastructure in Tanzania; 2: Infrastructure Spending in Selected African Countries; 3: Composition of Public Infrastructure Spending in Tanzania



IV. MEETING TANZANIA'S INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS: PUBLIC VS PRIVATE SECTOR A. Direct Private Investment; 4: Private Investment in Infrastructure Projects in Africa by Country; 5: Private Investment in Infrastructure Projects in Africa by Sector; B. Public-Private Partnerships; V. CREATING FISCAL SPACE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE; A. Expenditure Reprioritization and Efficiency; 6: Tanzania: Selected Fiscal Indicators; BOXES; 1: Spending Reviews in the United Kingdom; 8: Tanzania: Composition of Priority Spending; B. Domestic Revenue Mobilization

9: Revenue Mobilization and GDP per Capita in Selected African Countries C. Grants and Concessional Financing; 10: Aid for Trade Disbursements and Commitments; VI. ADDITIONAL SOVEREIGN BORROWING ON COMMERCIAL CREDIT MARKETS; A. Domestic Capital Markets; 2: Medium-Term Debt Strategies; 11: Broad Money/GDP in Selected African Countries; B. External Sovereign Borrowing; 12: Tanzania Treasury Bonds Volumes and Yields; 3: Lessons from First Time Bond Issuances; VII. CONCLUSIONS; VIII. REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

A common dilemma facing governments around the world is how to meet the sizeable fiscal costs of providing and maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules, budgetary reforms, tax policy and administration measures, public-private partnerships and other innovative financial instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship bet



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781725003321

Autore

Hall Robert A (Robert Anderson), <1911-1997.>

Titolo

A life for language [[electronic resource] ] : a biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield / / Robert A. Hall, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990

ISBN

1-283-31352-9

9786613313522

90-272-7807-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 55

Disciplina

410/.92

B

Soggetti

Linguists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

A LIFE FOR LANGUAGE A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LEONARD BLOOMFIELD; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. THE EARLY YEARS (1887-1909); CHAPTER 2. CINCINNATI AND ILLINOIS (1909-1921); CHAPTER 3. OHIO STATE (1921-1927); CHAPTER 4. CHICAGO (1927-1940); CHAPTER 5. YALE (1940-1949); CHAPTER 6. POSTHUMOUS FORTUNE; NOTES TO THE BIOGRAPHY; REFERENCES FOR NOTES; A NEW LEONARD BLOOMFIELD BIBLIOGRAPHY (1909-1985); INDEX OF BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS, TERMS, AND LANGUAGES

Sommario/riassunto

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to a thorough-going study of language, its structure and its use, summed up in masterly fashion in his book Language (1933). After his premature death at the age of 62, his work was at first acclaimed as an exemplary application of the scientific method to linguistics, but then fell into unjustified neglect. Now that the centenary of his birth has passed, the time has come for the story of Bloomfield's life and work to be recounted in a biography. Accordingly, basing his