05320oam 22007575 450 991077826410332120230207225034.01-281-11317-497866111131790-8213-6827-310.1596/978-0-8213-6826-8(CKB)1000000000481521(EBL)459817(OCoLC)290501749(SSID)ssj0000089057(PQKBManifestationID)11981260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089057(PQKBWorkID)10088914(PQKB)10625417(MiAaPQ)EBC459817(Au-PeEL)EBL459817(CaPaEBR)ebr10202648(CaONFJC)MIL111317(The World Bank)2007025942(US-djbf)14897396(EXLCZ)99100000000048152120070620d2008 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPublic finance for poverty reduction : concepts and case studies from Africa and Latin America /edited by Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Quentin WodonWashington DC :World Bank,[2008]copyright 2008.xxvi, 474 pages illustrations 23 cmDirections in development. PovertyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8213-6826-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Public Finance for Poverty Reduction: An Overview Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Quentin Wodon; Part One Concepts in Public Finance:Debt,Taxation, Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, and Benefit Incidence Analysis; Chapter 2 Debt Sustainability for Low-Income Countries: A Review of Standard and Alternative Concepts Danny Cassimon, Blanca Moreno-Dodson, and Quentin Wodon; Table 2.1 Debt Sustainability Thresholds and Policy Performance for IDA14; Chapter 3 Revenue Design and Taxation Eric M. ZoltTable 3.1 Comparative Levels of Tax Revenue, Selected Years, 1985-97 Table 3.2 Comparative Composition of Tax Revenue, Selected Years, 1985-97; Chapter 4 Assessing Front-line Service Delivery: Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson; Table 4.1 Leakage of Public Funds for Education, Uganda, 1991-95; Chapter 5 The Impact of Budgets on the Poor: Tax and Expenditure Benefit Incidence Analysis Jorge Martinez-Vazquez; Part Two Case Studies from the Latin America and the Caribbean RegionChapter 6 Analyzing Debt Sustainability: An Application of SimSIP Debt for Paraguay Bernhard G. Gunter and Quentin WodonFigure 6.1 Initial Conditions and Basic Macroeconomic Assumptions; Figure 6.2 Results of Different Export Growth Scenarios; Figure 6.3 Assumptions on Public Domestic Debt; Figure 6.4 Results of the Baseline, Pessimistic, and Optimistic Scenarios; Figure 6.5 Results of Different Revenue and Expenditure Scenarios; Table 6.1 Short- and Long-Term Consistency Matrices; Table 6A.1 Trends in Paraguay's Debt, 1991-2000Chapter 7 Evaluating a Tax System: Mexico Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Table 7.1 Marginal Effective Corporate Tax Rates on Domestic Capital Investment; Table 7.2 Tax Burden by Income Decile: Baseline Scenario; Table 7.3 Tax Burden by Income Decile: Alternate Scenario; Table 7.4 Distribution of Net Income among Income Deciles; Table 7.5 Distribution of Gross Income among Deciles: Base Scenario; Table 7.6 Distribution of Gross Income among Deciles: Alternate ScenarioChapter 8 Measuring Targeting Performance through Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys: Peru José R. López-Cálix, Lorena Alcázar, and Erik Wachtenheim Table 8.1 Correlation between Expenditure and Poverty, by Department, 2001; Figure 8.1 Lorenz Curves in Selected Social Programs; Table 8.2 Household Access to Social Programs, by Poverty Level, 2001; Figure 8.2 Lorenz Curves for Health Care Expenditures; Figure 8.3 Lorenz Curves for Education Expenditures; Table 8.3 Targeting of Individual Beneficiaries by Food Assistance, Health Care, and Education Programs, 2000Figure 8.4 Access to Social Programs, 2001This book presents some basic theoretical concepts of public finance with a particular emphasis on its impact poverty reduction. Eight case studies from Latin America and Africa illustrate how these concepts are applied in practice and the implementation issues that emerge.World Bank e-Library.Finance, PublicDeveloping countriesPovertyGovernment policyAfricaCase studiesPovertyGovernment policyLatin AmericaCase studiesAfricaSocial policyCase studiesLatin AmericaSocial policyCase studiesFinance, PublicPovertyGovernment policyPovertyGovernment policy339.4/6091724Moreno-Dodson Blanca1492291Wodon Quentin1104883DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910778264103321Public finance for poverty reduction3715563UNINA