Tax or debt financing of a given rate of government expenditures would, according to the now well-known Ricardian Equivalence proposition, have equivalent effects on aggregate demand. Among the reasons for a deviation from the equivalence is the possibility that the government and the private...

Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword vii -- Acknowledgments viii -- Abbreviations and Acronyms ix -- 1 The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 1 -- 2 The Investment Climate 17 -- 3 Public Intervention to Promote Supply Response 71 -- 4 Private Participation and Markets for Basic...