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  Get what you want, give what you can: embedded public finance in Porto Alegre

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  How can governments raise taxes and improve public services for poorer groups, while at the same time securing the political support of those with wealth?In Porto Alegre, this working paper suggests, participatory budgeting has been key to the considerable successes of the government in reducing inequality while maintaining the support of the middle classes.
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  Financial reform and the mobilisation of domestic savings: the experience of Morocco

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  Economic theory suggests that financial sector liberalisation increases savings and improves investment, thereby promoting economic development. But does this theory fit with the experience of liberalising economies?
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  Measuring the impact of price changes on poverty

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Most poverty line calculations do not consider the impact that changes in relative prices can have on the poor. This paper offers a methodology that determines whether price changes benefit the poor proportionally more, or less, than the non-poor.
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  The impact of international migration on the economic development of countries in the Mediterranean basin

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2006

  The intense debate continues on the potential poverty reducing effects of remittances. This paper analyses the impact migrant workers’ remittances have in stimulating local economic development.
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  Interactions between monetary and fiscal policy: how monetary conditions affect fiscal consolidation

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This paper assesses how, and in what circumstances, fiscal adjustments are affected by monetary conditions, using data covering 24 OECD countries over the past 25 years.
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  Strategies and policies on TNC-SME linkages country case studies: South Africa (SDS RP70)

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2006

  This report documents and assesses selected South African experiences with regard to the promotion of linkages between Trans- National Corporations (TNCs) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
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  To pay or not to pay?: citizens’ views on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006

  This document presents the finding on a survey in Tanzania. The survey sought to uncover why taxpayers evade taxes.
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  Strengthening the employment impact of an MDG-based development strategy for Yemen

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  This Country Study aims to identify employment policies for Yemen that would support an ambitious MDG-based development strategy.Largely based on labour force and labour demand surveys, the paper examines the structure of employment and unemployment in Yemen, together with the pattern of labour demands, hours and wages.The study finds that Yemen is trapped in the crossfire between slow econo
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  Doing business 2007: how to reform

  Doing Business, World Bank, 2006

  Doing Business 2007: How to Reform is the fourth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
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  A policymakers’ guide to Dutch disease

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  Aimed at policy-makers, this paper tackles the issue of Dutch Disease - that is, the theory that aid flows will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate which can slow the growth of a country’s exports— and that aid increases might thereby harm a country’s long-term growth prospects.

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