Helping Countries Develop : : The Role of Fiscal Policy / / Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Gabriela Inchauste

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780741603321
• Autore: Clements Benedict
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-4623-7344-5; 1-4527-5741-0; 1-283-53839-3; 9786613850843; 1-4519-5274-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 528 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Books
• Altri autori (Persone): GuptaSanjeev; InchausteGabriela
• Disciplina: 339.5/2/091724
• Soggetti: Finance, Public - Developing countries; Government spending policy - Developing countries; Exports and Imports; Macroeconomics; Public Finance; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General; Fiscal Policy; Education: General; Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt; National Government Expenditures and Health; Public finance & taxation; Education; International economics; Health economics; Expenditure; Health care spending; Fiscal policy; Education spending; Public debt; Expenditures, Public; Debts, Public; Health; Developing countries Appropriations and expenditures; Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of
• 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: Fiscal policy for economic development: an overview / Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Gabriela Inchauste -- Fiscal policy, expenditure composition, and growth in low-income countries / Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- Persistence of fiscal adjustments and expenditure composition in low-income countries / Emanuele Baldacci ... [et al.] -- Growth, governance, and fiscal policy transmission channels in low-income countries / Emanuele Baldacci, Arye L. Hillman, Naoko Kojo -- External debt, public investment and growth in low-income countries / Benedict Clements, Rina Bhattacharya, Tuan Quoc Nguyen -- A framework for fiscal debt sustainability analysis in low-income countries / Emanuele Baldacci, Kevin Fletcher -- Experience with budgetary convergence in the WAEMU / Ousmane Doré, Paul R. Masson -- The effectiveness of government spending on education and health care in developing and transition economies / Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven, Erwin R. Tiongson -- Public spending on health care and the poor / Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven, Erwin R. Tiongson -- User payments for basic education in low-income countries / Arye L. Hillman, Eva Jenkner -- The efficiency of government expenditure: experiences from Africa / Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven -- Tax policy in developing countries: some lessons from the 1990s and some challenges ahead / Michael Keen, Alejandro Simone -- Social impact of a tax reform: the case of Ethiopia / Sònia Muñoz, Stanley Sang-Wook Cho -- Foreign aid and revenue response: does the composition of aid matter? / Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- More aid: making it work for the poor / Peter S. Heller, Sanjeev Gupta -- Aid and fiscal management / Alex̌ Bulíř, Timothy Lane -- Foreign aid and consumption smoothing: evidence from global food aid / Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Erwin R. Tiongson -- Fiscal consequences of armed conflict and terrorism in low- and middle-income countries / Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- A comparison between two public expenditure management systems in Africa / Ian Lienert.
• Sommario/riassunto: Fiscal policy can foster growth and human development through a number of different channels. These include the macroeconomic (for example, through the influence of the budget deficit on growth) as well as the microeconomic (through its influence on the efficiency of resource use). But how precisely do these channels work in developing countries? What kinds of tax and expenditure policies should developing countries implement to help them meet the Millennium Development Goals? And how can international aid be made more effective? Drawing on both theory and country experience, this book brings together IMF research on the various ways fiscal policy can be used to help spur economic development.