Business & Economics : Public Finance

Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to th......

While doctors through the ages have thought that they had based their practice on evidence, a new movement based on the ideas of the Scottish doctor Archie C......

This book provides a comprehensive account of the principles and practices of fiscal federalism based on the currently accepted theoretical framework and bes......

The central question of this book is whether the assignment of government functions to the individual jurisdictions in a federal state can ensure an optimal ......

In the preface to this report, it is asserted that, " history hovers... over any discussion of fiscal federalism in Russia. " This report not only reviews th......

The study overviews the most relevant, current intergovernmental fiscal issues in the Czech Republic, centered on the options available to prod policy planni......

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Bulgaria has made substantial progress toward long-term macroeconomic stability. Growth has been re-established, per capita income has improved, inflation ha......

Since the late 1990s, an essential shift has taken place in the pattern of private sector financial flows to developing countries. Debt flows have fallen sha......

The purpose of this report is to provide diagnoses and policy recommendation in public expenditure management in Peru. The introductory chapter of the book p......

The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative, a major innovation in development finance, was designed to relieve the high external debt of some......

Government decisions are rarely driven solely by the dictates of cost-benefit analyses. Generating good decision making about fiscal support also requires pr......

Public Expenditure Review of Armenia is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government......

The paper describes the operational characteristics of hawala in Afghanistan. It describes the system's geographic characteristics, convenience, effectivenes......

A New Approach compares and contrasts the various instruments and approaches used by the World Bank, IMF, European Commission and other development agencies ......

This report explores the macro-economic and public finance implications of natural disasters, including the role of information and mechanisms for risk sprea......

The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, private capital flows to developing......

The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, private capital flows to developing......

Decentralization in Madagascar is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to com......

"Fiscal sustainability analysis is the use of a simple set of tools to analyze a government's budget and its debt position, and leads to conclusions - given ......