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, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically …
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-resource economy, efficiency of spending, and sustainability of fiscal outcomes, the analysis finds that, although investment … fiscal sustainability concerns are taken into consideration. Finally, a balanced composition is the preferred structure of …
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In the past two years alone, at least six systematic reviews or meta-analyses have examined the interventions that improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, these reviews have sometimes reached starkly different conclusions: reviews, in turn, recommend information...
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Fiscal sustainability analysis (FSA) is an important component of macroeconomic analysis. The authors review various … realizations of the exogenous variables. Furthermore, the fiscal sustainability tool incorporates an endogenous debt feedback rule …
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This paper studies the sustainability of early childhood education centers established under a large-scale, donor … student fees. The paper estimates a series of logistic regression models to predict center sustainability. Centers that … major factor for sustainability. There is also no evidence to suggest that, while they were operating, closed centers …
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This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging and the type of unfunded social...
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This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of cyclicality in the fiscal policy stance of developing and industrialized countries over a period of more than three decades covering 180 countries during 1980?2012. First, the paper considers issues of robustness in the choice of the proxy for...
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Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...
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This paper examines causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. It starts by reviewing some of the factors that, over the past couple of decades, have transformed corruption from a subject on the sidelines of economic research to a central preoccupation of...
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This paper analyzes Burundi's medium-term fiscal sustainability in the light of the country's vulnerability to various … sustainability. Drawing initially on the standard inter-temporal sustainability framework, the baseline analysis shows that Burundi … policy scenario analysis shows that future fiscal sustainability will hinge on the government's ability to stick to its plans …
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