Fiscal Issues in Adjustment in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Riccardo Faini, Jaime de Melo (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book deals with aspects of the recent fiscal crisis in developing countries. Macro aspects cover theoretical underpinning of fiscal policy, the size of the required adjustment and the link between internal and external transfers. Micro aspects cover the relation between private and public investment, the experience of tax and expenditure reforms, and the impact of fiscal adjustment on the poor.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Fiscal Issues in Adjustment: An Introduction....Pages 1-19
Fiscal Issues in Adjustment Programs....Pages 21-42
Orthodox Models for Adjustment and Growth....Pages 43-59
Fiscal Issues in Macroeconomic Stabilization: A Structuralist Perspective....Pages 61-77
The Transfer Problem in Small Open Economies: Exchange Rate and Fiscal Policies for Debt Service....Pages 79-98
Fiscal Adjustment in High-Debt Countries....Pages 99-120
Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Developing Countries: Recent Evidence on Key Selected Issues....Pages 121-150
Prices, Taxes and Planning....Pages 151-168
Recent Experience with Tax Reform in Developing Countries....Pages 169-195
The Fiscal System, Adjustment and the Poor....Pages 197-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-231

✦ Subjects

Development Economics

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