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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788408703321

Autore

Fedelino Annalisa

Titolo

Aid Scaling Up : : Do Wage Bill Ceilings Stand in the Way? / / Annalisa Fedelino, Gerd Schwartz, Marijn Verhoeven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-7301-1

1-4527-7940-6

1-283-51308-0

9786613825537

1-4519-0900-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (37 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SchwartzGerd

VerhoevenMarijn

Soggetti

Wages - Econometric models

Labor policy - Econometric models

Economic assistance - Econometric models

Labor

Public Finance

Fiscal Policy

Foreign Aid

National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Wage Level and Structure

Wage Differentials

Public Sector Labor Markets

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Incomes Policy

Price Policy

Labour

income economics

Civil service & public sector

Public finance & taxation

Public sector wages



Wage adjustments

Civil service reform

Government wage bill

Expenditure

Civil service

Ghana

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"April 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. SCALING UP AID AND THE ROLE OF THE IMF""; ""III. WHY WAGE BILL CEILINGS?""; ""IV. WAGE BILL CONDITIONALITY IN PRACTICE""; ""V. DO WAGE BILL CEILINGS ACCOMMODATE DONOR-FINANCED WAGE SPENDING IN PRIORITY SECTORS?""; ""VI. IMPROVING WAGE BILL CONDITIONALITY""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper assesses whether the scaling up of aid and the resulting increase in government spending that is needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be hampered by wage bill ceilings that are often part of government programs supported by the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). Based on country case studies for 2003-05, the paper suggests that, in the past, wage bill ceilings have not restricted the use of available donor funds. Yet the paper offers a number of suggestions for further enhancing the flexibility of wage bill conditionality in PRGF-supported programs to respond to higher aid flows that may result in the future.