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Africa's Got Work to Do »
Source: Africa's Got Work to Do : Employment Prospects in the New Century
Volume/Issue: 2013/201
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Louise Fox , Cleary Haines , Jorge Huerta Munoz , and Alun Thomas
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2013
ISBN: 9781484389195
Keywords: wage employment, household enterprises, labor, General, Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure, Sub-Saharan Africa.,
Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employm...
Appendix I. How Countries Undertook Their Adjustment Efforts »
Source: The Composition of Fiscal Adjustment and Growth : Lessons from Fiscal Reforms in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): George Mackenzie , Philip Gerson , and David Orsmond
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 1997
ISBN: 9781557756299
Keywords: expenditure, public expenditure, fiscal policy, capital expenditure, expenditure management
This appendix provides a detailed description of changes in expenditure policy and public expenditure management, tax policy and administration, and of certain aspects of public ent...
Appendix II. Expenditure and Tax Categories »
Source: The Composition of Fiscal Adjustment and Growth : Lessons from Fiscal Reforms in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): George Mackenzie , Philip Gerson , and David Orsmond
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 1997
ISBN: 9781557756299
Keywords: expenditure, public expenditure, fiscal policy, capital expenditure, expenditure management
Appendix II presents background information (referred to in the text) on selected economic and functional categories of expenditure, and major tax categories, expres...
Appendix III. Summary of Tax Systems »
Source: The Composition of Fiscal Adjustment and Growth : Lessons from Fiscal Reforms in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): George Mackenzie , Philip Gerson , and David Orsmond
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 1997
ISBN: 9781557756299
Keywords: expenditure, public expenditure, fiscal policy, capital expenditure, expenditure management
This appendix presents in tabular form (Table 12) the eight countries at various stages of their adjust-some of the basic features of the tax systems of ment efforts....
The Composition of Fiscal Adjustment and Growth : Lessons from Fiscal Reforms in Eight Economies »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): George Mackenzie , Philip Gerson , and David Orsmond
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756299.084
ISBN: 9781557756299
Keywords: expenditure, public expenditure, fiscal policy, capital expenditure, expenditure management
This study examines the composition of fiscal adjustment - tax and expenditure policies and administrative procedures, and some aspects of public enterprise reform - in a sample of eight countries (Bangladesh, Chil...
Economic Diversification in LICs »
Source: Economic Diversification in LICs : Stylized Facts and Macroeconomic Implications
Volume/Issue: 2012/13
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s): Chris Papageorgiou , and Nicola Spatafora
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 14 December 2012
ISBN: 9781475532180
Keywords: Trade and real-sector diversification, quality upgrading, volatility, growth, LICs, export diversification, external shocks, external trade, total exports, trading partners
Limited diversification is an underlying characteristic of many low-income countries (LICs). Concentration in sectors with limited scope for increases in productivity and quality may result in less broad-based and...
I Introduction and Summary: Issues in Adjustment and Growth »
Source: Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries : Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Kalpana Kochhar , Erik Offerdal , Louis Dicks-Mireaux , Mauro Mecagni , Jianping Zhou , Balázs Horváth , David Goldsbrough , and Sharmini Coorey
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 August 1996
ISBN: 9781557755599
Keywords: inflation, terms of trade, private investment, external financing, wages
Following the severe economic shocks—a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade and higher world interest rates—of the late 1970s and early 1980s and the ensuing debt crisis, a large number of developing co...
I. Overview: Fiscal Reform and Economic Growth »
Source: The Composition of Fiscal Adjustment and Growth : Lessons from Fiscal Reforms in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): George Mackenzie , Philip Gerson , and David Orsmond
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 1997
ISBN: 9781557756299
Keywords: expenditure, public expenditure, fiscal policy, capital expenditure, expenditure management
Although the immediate objectives of IMF-supported programs are financial stabilization and a sustainable external position for the member country seeking IMF assistance, the ultimate aim is the improvement...
II. How Fiscal Policy Can Affect Growth: Conceptual Issues and Evidence »
Source: The Composition of Fiscal Adjustment and Growth : Lessons from Fiscal Reforms in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): George Mackenzie , Philip Gerson , and David Orsmond
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 1997
ISBN: 9781557756299
Keywords: expenditure, public expenditure, fiscal policy, capital expenditure, expenditure management
A Basic Conceptual Framework 4 Growth in actual output per person employed (productivity growth) can be attributed to one or more of th...
II Overview of Adjustment »
Source: Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries : Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Kalpana Kochhar , Erik Offerdal , Louis Dicks-Mireaux , Mauro Mecagni , Jianping Zhou , Balázs Horváth , David Goldsbrough , and Sharmini Coorey
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 August 1996
ISBN: 9781557755599
Keywords: inflation, terms of trade, private investment, external financing, wages
Under the IMF’s mandate, resolving member countries’ external financing problems must receive priority in IMF-supported programs; this objective, however, should be pursued with sensitivity toward the ultima...