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This paper reviews the literature on the fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport sector externalities. The findings show that congestion charges would reduce vehicle traffic by 9 to 12 percent and significantly improve environmental quality. The vehicle tax literature...
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Tajikistan's economy has recovered strongly after the collapse of the 1990s, but sustaining rapid economic growth over the long term and reducing poverty present major challenges for policymakers. This paper contributes to the debate over the strategic role for fiscal policy to play in meeting...
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this debate relates to the effect of the composition of public expenditure on economic growth. Policy makers and some … researchers have argued that expenditure on growth-enhancing functions could enhance future revenue and justify the provision of … "fiscal space" in the budget. But there are no simple ways to identify the growth-maximizing composition of public expenditure …
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-budget programs, containing the financial risks of its policies, and improving the management of public expenditures and contingent …
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May 1999 - Institutional arrangements have helped Colombia manage the fiscal aspects of decentralization, despite the country's political problems. Colombia's political geography contrasts sharply with its economy. Physical characteristics and guerilla war fragment the country geographically,...
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This paper examines the policy challenges that a country faces when it wants to both reduce inflation and maintain a sustainable external position. Robert Mundell's policy assignment framework suggests that these two goals may be mutually incompatible unless monetary and fiscal policies are...
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The significant role of government consumption in affecting economic conditions raises the necessity for monetary policy to take into account the behaviour of fiscal policy and to also take into account how the presence of the fiscal sector might affect the transmission mechanism of monetary...
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