Lessons of fiscal adjustment : selected proceedings from a World Bank Seminar /

Lessons of fiscal adjustment : selected proceedings from a World Bank Seminar /

The paper reports on the findings regarding fiscal reform, a crucial component of the Bank ' s structural adjustment lending. Based on an assessment, dated 1997, of fiscal adjustment in twenty six countries, and, amplified by the Seminar of experts, the paper focuses on two aspects of fiscal ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Datta-Mitra, Jayati, ed, Ebrahimi, Farah, ed
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [1997?]
Subjects:
POLITICA FISCAL
REFORMA TRIBUTARIA
AJUSTE ESTRUCTURAL
BANCO MUNDIAL
PAISES EN DESARROLLO
POLITICA TRIBUTARIA
REFORMA FISCAL
TERCER MUNDO
BIRF
Online Access:https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/sites/default/files/Data/reports/f_adj.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Background
  • Prerequisites for sustainable fiscal reform
  • Session 1: The political economy of budgetary issues
  • The Bank's work in fiscal adjustment
  • The illusion of fiscal adjustment
  • Fiscal adjustment in the OECD and Latin America
  • Elements of sustainable fiscal adjustment
  • Summing up
  • Floor discussion
  • Session 2: Incentives and outcomes in fiscal adjustment
  • The effect of fiscal reform on the poor in Africa
  • The practitioner's view: the process and instruments of reform
  • Fiscal outcomes in Latin America
  • Public expenditure reform and Bank conditions on adjustment lending
  • Instruments of reform
  • Floor discussion
  • Summing up
  • Closing remarks

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