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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964531403321

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

9786613825537

9781462373017

1462373011

9781452779409

1452779406

9781283513081

1283513080

9781451909005

1451909004

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Civil service & public sector

Civil service reform

Civil service

Employment

Expenditure

Fiscal Policy

Foreign Aid

Government wage bill

Income economics

Incomes Policy

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Labor

Labour

National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs

Price Policy

Public finance & taxation



Public Finance

Public Sector Labor Markets

Public sector wages

Unemployment

Wage adjustments

Wage Differentials

Wage Level and Structure

Wages

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

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.