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Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Imbalances
Baldacci, Emanuele; Gupta, Sanjeev; Mulas-Granados, Carlos - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The volume collects the essays presented at the 15th Workshop on Public Finance organised by Banca d'Italia in Perugia from 4 to 6 April 2013. The workshop focused on the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic imbalances and comprised four sessions. The first session concentrated on the...
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Direct Distribution of Resource Revenues: Worth Considering?
Gupta, Sanjeev; Segura-Ubiergo, Alex; Flores, Enrique - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Some scholars have argued that direct distribution of natural resource revenues to the population would help resource-rich countries escape the “resource curse.†This discussion note analyzes whether this proposal is a viable policy alternative for resource-rich countries. The first...
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Growth performance and forecasts of exports of leather industry in Punjab
Gupta, Sanjeev; Kumar, Gulshan - In: Foreign trade review : quarterly journal of Indian … 43 (2008) 1, pp. 27-41
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Les freins au commerce en Afrique
Gupta, Sanjeev; Yang, Yongzheng - In: Problèmes économiques : le meilleur de la presse et … 2923 (2007), pp. 38-42
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Investing in Growth
Arslanalp, Serkan - 2011
' growth prospects. But more important than whether a country can expand its public investment in infrastructure is whether it … should. Unfortunately, the results of studies on public investment's impact on growth are unclear, leading many to conclude … developing economies during 1960–2001, finds that public investment generally has a positive impact on growth. Furthermore, the …
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Natural Resource Endowments, Governance, and the Domestic Revenueeffort; Evidence From a Panel of Countries
Thornton, John; Bornhorst, Fabian; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
The recent development literature stresses that countries that receive large revenues from natural resource endowments typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates governance problems because the lower domestic tax effort reduces the incentive for the public...
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Front-Loaded or Back-Loaded Fiscal Adjustments; What Works in Emerging Market Economies?
Clements, Benedict J.; Gupta, Sanjeev; Baldacci, Emanuele; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper investigates the political and economic determinants of successful fiscal adjustment in 25 emerging market economies from 1980 to 2001. The results show that large and back-loaded fiscal adjustments have the highest likelihood of success. Fiscal consolidations based on expenditure...
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Real and Distributive Effects of Petroleum Price Liberalization; The Case of Indonesia
Clements, Benedict J.; Gupta, Sanjeev; Jung, Hong-Sang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
The impact of higher petroleum prices on the aggregate price level, real growth, and income distribution is appraised within a multisector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. A reduction in the government subsidy raises petroleum prices and production costs throughout the economy....
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The Cyclical and Long-Term Behavior of Government Expenditures in Developing Countries
Inchauste, Gabriela; Akitoby, Bernardin; Clements, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
We examine the short- and long-term movements of government spending relative to output in 51 countries. We find that in the short term, the main components of government spending increase with output in about half of the sample countries, with some variation across spending categories and...
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Foreign Aid and Revenue; Still a Crowding Out Effect?
Crivelli, Ernesto; Gupta, Sanjeev; Muthoora, Priscilla S.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper reexamines the relationship between aid and domestic tax revenues using a more recent and comprehensive dataset covering 118 countries for the period 1980 - 2009. Overall, our results support earlier findings of a negative association between net Official Development Assistance (ODA)...
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