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Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships: Addressing Infrastructure Challenges and Managing Fiscal Risks
by Gerd Schwartz Ana Corbacho Katja FunkeThere are now increasing concerns about the need to upgrade public infrastructure, improve the delivery of public services, and explore new options for partnering with the private sector. This book looks at& ways of strengthening the efficiency of public investment and managing the fiscal risks of& public-private partnerships.
Sequencing Financial Sector Reforms Country Experiences and Issues
by International Monetary FundA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Economic Policy and Equity
by Vito TanziDuring the past decade, income gaps have widened in many parts of the world, industrial as well as developing. These have heightened concern about equity issues in economic policymaking. Equity and growth can be complementary: investment in human capital, for example, can boost growth in the long run. But choices are not always so easy. If growth and equity do not go hand in hand, when and how should governments ensure that the size of the pie increases and that everybody gets a fair share? This volume brings together the views not only of senior policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world who participated in an unprecedented IMF conference on the topic in June 1998. Contents include: Stanley Fischer, A View from the IMF IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic Policy? Amartya Sen, Economic Policy and Equity: An Overview Anthony Atkinson, Equity Issues in a Globalizing World: The Experience of OECD Countries Lawrence Summers, Equity in a Global Economy Equity-Oriented Policymaking: Country Experience Eduardo Aninat and others, Addressing Equity Issues in Policymaking: Grzegorz Kolodko, Equity Issues in Policymaking in Transition Economies Anibal Cavaco Silva, Political Economy and the Equity-Policy Agenda Alberto Alesina, Too Large and Too Small Governments Enrique Iglesias, Equity Issues in Latin America Vito Tanzi is director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF. Ke-young Chu is a senior advisor and Sanjeev Gupta is a division chief in the department. An International Monetary Fund Book
Manual on Fiscal Transparency
by International Monetary FundA report from the International Monetary Fund.
In Search of Lost Revenue: Why Restoring Fiscal Soundness After a Crisis is Harder than It Looks
by Masato MiyazakiA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Economic Adjustment: Policies and Problems
by Frank HolmesA report from the International Monetary Fund.
World Economic Outlook: Interim Assessment December 1997
by International Monetary FundThe economic and financial crisis that erupted in southeast Asia in July 1997 had continued to deepen and broaden as of December, and spillover effects from investor' deteriorating confidence in emerging market economies were being felt throughout the global financial system. This special Interim Assessment of the World Economic Outlook revises regional and global economic projections made by the IMF staff, as published in the October 1997 issue, in light of the crisis;charts the buildup to the crisis and its onset and evolution;assesses effects on the advanced economies and on private financing for developing countries;and raises policy issues that the crisis has posed.
Government Budgeting and Expenditure Controls
by A. PremchandA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Tax Law Design and Drafting
by Victor ThuronyiThis book examines the development of tax legislation from a comparative law perspective, An area in which very little of a general nature has previously been written. Based on the experience of the IMF Legal Department in assisting many developing and transition countries to draft tax legislation, it comprises contributions by tax experts from around the world. This useful guide aims to identify the legal issues that arise in the drafting of tax laws and to examine the various solutions which have been devised in national legislation. A comparative tax law bibliography and a bibliography of the national tax laws of IMF member countries are included in appendix. Its practical nature And The general scope of its discussion will make it a valuable tool not only for officials in developing and transition countries and their advisors, but also for students, academics and practitioners with an interest in comparative tax law. A two-volume paperback edition of this work was published by the IMF in 1996 and 1998.
Fiscal Reforms That Work
by C. John Mcdermott Robert F. WescottA report from the International Monetary Fund.
International Money and Credit: The Policy Roles
by George M. von FurstenbergA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Subnational Health Spending and Soft Budget Constraints in OECD Countries
by Ernesto Crivelli Adam Leive Thomas StratmannA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Financial Programming and Policy
by Richard Barth William HemphillA series of workshops introducing readers to the process of formulating a macroeconomic adjustment programme, designed to move a country toward internal and external balance. Turkey is a middle income developing country which has made great progress towards industrialisation, but not without setbacks and stabilisation problems. It therefore presents a wide range of relevant issues for study.
Estimates of the Output Gap in Armenia with Applications to Monetary and Fiscal Policy
by Asmaa El-Ganainy Anke WeberA report from the International Monetary Fund.
The European Monetary System
by Peter Nyberg Horst Ungerer Owen EvensA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Macroeconomic Accounting and Analysis in Transition Economies
by Abdessatar Ouanes Subhash ThakurA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
by Shailendra J. AnjariaThis study reviews recent developments in international trade policies in selected industrial countries. It was prepared for the June 1981 World Economic Outlook.
Democracy and Reforms: Evidence from a New Dataset*
by Paola Giuliano Prachi Mishra Antonio SpilimbergoA report from the International Monetary Fund.
International Comparisons of Government Expenditure
by Alan A. Tait Peter S. HellerMany studies on International tax compaisons have been undertaken since the early 1970s. While controversial, such studies have facilitated more subtle comparisons of a country's tax performance than would be afforded by focusing on its simple tax ratio.
Public Expenditure Handbook
by Ke-Young Chu Richard HemmingA report from the International Monetary Fund.
From Stimulus to Consolidation: Revenue and Expenditure Policies in Advanced and Emerging Economies
by Benedict Clements Victoria Perry Juan ToroA staff team of the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Affairs Department offers member countries a strategy for fiscal adjustment that can help support sustainable growth over the longer term. On the spending side, they suggest stabilizing pension and public health spending ratios to gross domestic product and reducing other outlays such as public wages, untargeted social spending, and subsidies. On the revenue side, they suggest reducing existing distortions in the tax system. There is no index. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)