Helping Countries Develop: The Role Of Fiscal Policy

by Gupta, Sanjeev; Clements, Benedict J.; Inchauste, Gabriela

• ISBN13: 9781589063181
• ISBN10: 158906318X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-30
• Publisher: Bernan Assoc

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Fiscal Policy for Economic Development: An Overview	1	(22)
Benedict Clements
Sanjeev Gupta
Gabriela Inchauste
I. Macroeconomic Policy in Developing Countries
Fiscal Policy, Expenditure Composition, and Growth in Low-Income Countries	23	(25)
Sanjeev Gupta
Benedict Clements
Emanuele Baldacci
Carlos Mulas-Granados
Persistence of Fiscal Adjustments and Expenditure Composition in Low-Income Countries	48	(19)
Emanuele Baldacci
Benedict Clements
Sanjeev Gupta
Carlos Mulas-Granados
Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries	67	(38)
Emanuele Baldacci
Arye L. Hillman
Naoko Kojo
External Debt, Public Investment and Growth in Low-Income Countries	105	(25)
Benedict Clements
Rina Bhattacharya
Tuan Quoc Nguyen
A Framework for Fiscal Debt Sustainability Analysis in Low-Income Countries	130	(32)
Emanuele Baldacci
Kevin Fletcher
Experience with Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU	162	(22)
Ousmane Dore
Paul R. Masson
II. Public Spending and the Millennium Development Goals
The Effectiveness of Government Spending on Education and Health Care in Developing and Transition Economies	184	(29)
Sanjeev Gupta
Marijn Verhoeven
Erwin R. Tiongson
Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor	213	(20)
Sanjeev Gupta
Marijn Verhoeven
Erwin R. Tiongson
User Payments for Basic Education in Low-Income Countries	233	(32)
Arye L. Hillman
Eva Jenkner
The Efficiency of Government Expenditure: Experiences from Africa	265	(37)
Sanjeev Gupta
Marijn Verhoeven
III. Revenues and Growth
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Some Lessons from the 1990s and Some Challenges Ahead	302	(51)
Michael Keen
Alejandro Simone
Social Impact of a Tax Reform: The Case of Ethiopia	353	(32)
Sonia Munoz
Stanley Sang-Wook Cho
Foreign Aid and Revenue Response: Does the Composition of Aid Matter?	385	(22)
Sanjeev Gupta
Benedict Clements
Alexander Pivovarsky
Erwin R. Tiongson
IV. Fiscal Policy and Aid
More Aid---Making It Work for the Poor	407	(15)
Peter S. Heller
Sanjeev Gupta
Aid and Fiscal Management	422	(30)
Ales Bulir
Timothy Lane
Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid	452	(18)
Sanjeev Gupta
Benedict Clements
Erwin R. Tiongson
V. Special Topics
Fiscal Consequences of Armed Conflict and Terrorism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	470	(24)
Sanjeev Gupta
Benedict Clements
Rina Bhattacharya
Shamit Chakravarti
A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa	494
Ian Lienert