Domestic finance
- Impact of Zambia's 'cash budget' on service delivery to the poor
- T. D Hinh; A. Adugna; B. Myers / World Bank, 2002
- This paper reviews Zambia’s experience during the past decade of the “cash budget,” in which government domestic spending is limited to domestic revenue, leaving no room for excess spending. The paper focuses particular...
- Area Development Projects and the PRS process
- J. Farrington; R, Blench; I. Christoplos; K. Ralsgård; A. Rudqvist / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003
- This paper argues that ADPs have considerable potential to inform PRS and similar processes within this ‘new architecture’ of aid. Increased donor attention to Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) processes and to budgeta...
- What happens if HIPC debt relief resources are not additional?
- H. Hansen / Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
- Additionality is an important issue of the HIPC Initiative. This paper explains that addressing the question of whether or not the debt relief resources are supplementing conventional aid flows is important for at least four reasons: ...
- What are the lessons from the experiences in capacity building for Public Finance Management in Africa?
- J. Isaksen; G. Andersson / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002
- The aim of this paper is to summary experiences in capacity building for Public Finance Management (PFM) in Africa. The study gives particular attention to a more comprehensive approach to PFM and it is based on a review of policy doc...
- World bank education strategy must be more flexible and responsive
- A. Verspoor / Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2001
- This report argues that there is a strong case for the Bank to expand and broaden its support for education development in Africa providing necessary changes are made to the Bank's education funding strategy. Major factors that...
- An analysis of the conditions under which project aid is more or less effective than budgetary support
- T. Cordella; G. Dell’Arricia / International Monetary Fund, 2001
- Foreign aid has had at best a mixed impact on developing countries. One reason for the frequent failures of aid to bring about pro-poor social programmes is that aid programmes do not always create the right incentives for recipients ...
- Making the transition in ways of giving aid: from single projects to supporting national budgets
- G. Justice / Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2001
- How can we support poverty reduction programmes while building the capacity of local institutions and promoting accountability? This policy document was written by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Eco...
- How to manage and asses the risks of providing funds to recipient countries
- Department for International Development, UK, 2002
- The increasing adoption of poverty reduction strategies presents an important opportunity to reform the relationship between donors and developing countries. Donor assistance should be provided in a way that builds, rather than underm...
- An introduction to the principles and development of Sector Wide Approaches
- V. Walford / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1998
- What is meant by a Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) and what are the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach when applied to the health sector in a developing country? This issues paper, which was prepared for Department for Internati...
- Sucessful participatory budgeting experience from Brazil: case study by the World Bank
- Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2003
- Presents a broad review of an experience in Participatory Budgeting introduced by the Workers Party (PT) in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, as part of their agenda of deepening democracy through “popular administration” ...
- The budget process in developing countries, and the role of aid within it
- M. Foster; A. Fozzard / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2000
- Which way forward for development aid? Current practice tends towards a more comprehensive approach to funding. Will this be more effective than specific project aid? It could be, according to this study. The key to success is a thoro...
- Is the current pattern of aid disbursements welfare-reducing?
- A. Bulír; A. J. Hamann / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This paper examines the empirical evidence on the volatility and uncertainty of aid flows, and discusses the main policy implications of our findings. Findings: Aid is more volatile than revenues–particularly in highly aid...
- Community based rural development is more participatory, efficient and sustainable
- L. Coirolo; K. McLean; M. Mokoli; A. Ryan; P. Shah; M. Williams / Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
- This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based...
- Transaction taxes increase market volatility
- K. Habermeier; A. Kirilenko / International Monetary Fund, 2001
- This article emphasises that transaction taxes have a very destructive impact on financial markets where the transformation of latent demands into realized transactions takes place. The article reflects on the transaction taxes...
- Suggestions for 'code of good donor practice'
- M. Foster / Oxford Policy Management, 1999
- This paper discusses how traditional donor practices can cause problems for budget planning and management in aid dependent countries. It discusses recent attempts to reform the budget process, and the donor role in it. Based on this ...
- Have tax levies on bank withdrawals in six Latin American countries been successful?
- I. Coelho; L. Ebrill; V. Summers / International Monetary Fund, 2001
- This paper investigates whether the decision by six Latin American countries, to levy taxes on withdrawals from bank accounts has been successful. The levying of taxes in this manner has been viewed as a convenient tax handle during a...
- The combined incidence of taxes and public expenditures in the Philippines
- Shantayanan Devarajan; Shaikh I. Hossain / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- In the Philippines, the combined effect of taxation and spending policies is progressive, because the incidence pattern of spending is progressive while that of taxation is neutral. Indirect taxes, the main source of government revenu...
- The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring
- Fernando Montes - Negret; Luca Papi / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Poland's program tackled simultaneously bank and enterprise restructuring and dealt decisively with the bad debt stock and flow problem with measures to improve incentives and institutional skills. Among transition economies, Poland w...
- Outline of research programme
- Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; O. Therkildsen; L. Rakner; J. Semboja / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
- Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and democratic consol...
- Does more aid leads to poorer governance?
- S. Knack / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Good governance (in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors) is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries. Aid dependence c...
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- BBVA Research (BBVA)
- Research wing of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, a multinational banking and financial services organisation. Originally Spanish, it has a major presence in Latin America. Research outputs cover: Macroeconomic Analysis Sectorial Analysis Global Trends Pensions
- Global Extension of Social Security
- GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and r...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Organisation collecting data on the people and economy of the United States. Data includes: Population & Housing Census - every 10 years Economic Census - every 5 years American Communtity Survey - annually Other demographic & economic surveys Economic Indicators - each indicator is released on a specific...
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
