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Vietnam; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This paper presents the Annual Progress Report on Vietnam’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The industrial output and export turnover have continuously increased and exceeded the targeted plan. The entire social investment has been fairly well increased, especially that of the private sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768446
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Social Returns to Education; Evidence From Italian Local Labor Market Areas
Dalmazzo, A.; Blasio, Guido De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
The paper provides a quantitative assessment of social returns to education in Italy. It shows that, after controlling for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated social returns between 2 and 3 percent. This result is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248310
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Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries
Matovu, John; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
This paper addresses the potential effects on human capital accumulation and economic growth of the alternative compositions of public expenditures in the context of a computable dynamic general equilibrium model of overlapping generations and heterogeneous agents in which altruistic parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825657
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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending
Kuijs, Louis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825706
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The Distributional Bias of Public Education; Causes and Consequences
Gradstein, Mark; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
weaknesses in governance. We present a simple dynamic model where weak governing institutions allow the rich to be more effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826262
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A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Efficiency of Public Spending on Education in Emerging and Developing Economies
Grigoli, Francesco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
improving the quality of institutions (as measured by the "governance effectiveness" indicator in the World bank's Governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242208
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Sudan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper focuses on Sudan’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRPS). I-PRSP will support existing planning and budgeting instruments, including the 3-Year Salvation Economic Program (SEP) 2012–2014 and the 5-Year Development Plan (2012–2016), by strengthening the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243737
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Ghana; Economic Development in a Democratic Environment
Harnack, Joachim; Leite, Sérgio Pereira.; Fabrizio, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767349
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The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets; Evidence From Emerging Markets
Stratmann, Thomas; Akitoby, Bernardin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper investigates the value of political institutions for financial markets, using panel data from emerging … market countries. We test the hypothesis that changes in political institutions, such as improvements in democratic rights … markets value institutions over and above the economic and fiscal outcomes these institutions shape. Democracy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769291
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Breaking the Curse of Sisyphus; An Empirical Analysis of Post-Conflict Economic Transitions
Cevik, Serhan; Rahmati, Mohammad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper provides a broad empirical analysis of the determinants of post-conflict economic transitions across the world during the period 1960–2010, using a dynamic panel estimation approach based on the system-generalized method of moments. In addition to an array of demographic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242246