Documentos e informes
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Public spending and growth in an economic and monetary union : the case of West Africa (Inglés)
The focus of the paper is on how public spending volume, composition (current versus capital), and quality are linked to the per capita growth rates of the West Africa economic and monetary union (WAEMU)...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 100635 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Moreno-Dodson,Blanca,Bayraktar,Nihal
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Can tax simplification help lower tax corruption ? (Inglés)
This paper seeks to find empirical evidence of a link between tax simplification and corruption in tax administration. It attempts to do this by first defining "tax simplicity" as a measurable variable...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6988 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Awasthi,Rajul,Bayraktar,Nihal
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Tax capacity and tax effort : extended cross-country analysis from 1994 to 2009 (Inglés)
One of the important factors for economic development is the existence of an effective tax system. This paper deals with the concept and empirical estimation of countries' taxable capacity and tax effort...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6252 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Le,Tuan Minh,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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Post-HIPC growth dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
Access to debt relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative enhanced the growth performance across Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the subset of debt-ridden low-income countries. Over the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5924 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Fofack,Hippolyte L.
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How public spending can help you grow : an empirical analysis for developing countries (Inglés)
Although many studies indicate that both the level and composition of public spending are significant for economic growth, the results in the empirical literature are still mixed. This note is based on...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 59381 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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How can public spending help you grow ? an empirical analysis for developing countries (Inglés)
Although many studies indicate that both the level and composition of public spending are significant for economic growth, the results in the empirical literature are still mixed. This paper studies the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5367 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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Micro efficiency and macro growth (Inglés)
This paper is about micro foundations of productivity and growth. There are several studies on productivity for advanced economies but relatively few for developing countries. Using data from the investment...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5267 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Nallari,Yugandhar Raj
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The composition of public expenditure and growth : a small-scale intertemporal model for low-income countries (Inglés)
This paper presents a small-scale intertemporal model of endogenous growth that accounts for the composition of public expenditure and externalities associated with public capital. Government spending...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4430 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
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Specification of investment functions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
It is a well-known fact that one of the most important determinants of growth is private investment. But in the developing country context of widespread poverty, the effects of initial conditions on the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4171 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Fofack,Hippolyte L.
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Banking sector openness and economic growth (Inglés)
Banking sector openness may directly affect growth by improving the access to financial services and indirectly by improving the efficiency of financial intermediaries, both of which reduce the cost of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4019 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Wang, Yan
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Linking public investment programs and SPAHD macro models : methodology and application to aid requirements (Inglés)
The authors propose a "bottom up" approach to link public investment programs with a class of macro models recently developed to quantify Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD) in low-income countries...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3944 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Bayraktar,Nihal,Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa : a macroeconomic monitoring framework (Inglés)
The authors present an integrated macroeconomic approach to monitoring progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of their approach is a macroeconomic...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3750 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Bayraktar,Nihal,El Aynaoui,Karim Jean-Philippe,Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
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A macroeconomic framework for quantifying growth and poverty reduction strategies in Niger (Inglés)
The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Agénor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger. As in the original model, linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3506 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2005 Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
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Roads out of poverty? assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction (Inglés)
The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty. Public investment is disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health, and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3490 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Autor: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Bayraktar,Nihal,El Aynaoui,Karim Jean-Philippe
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Foreign bank entry, performance of domestic banks, and sequence of financial liberalization (Inglés)
The openness or internationalization of financial services is a complex issue because it is closely related to structural reforms in the domestic financial sector with some perceived implications for macroeconomic...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3416 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2004 Autor: Bayraktar,Nihal,Yan Wang