Volume/Issue: 2010/05
Series: IMF Staff Position Notes
Author(s):
John Piotrowski
,
David Coady
,
Justin Tyson
,
Rolando Ossowski
,
Robert Gillingham
, and
Shamsuddin Tareq
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
25
February
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455239108.004
ISBN: 9781455239108
Petroleum product subsidies have again started to increase with the rebound in international prices. This note reviews recent developments in subsidy levels and argues that reforming the policy framework for settin...
Volume/Issue: 2010/05
Series: IMF Staff Position Notes
Author(s):
John Piotrowski
,
David Coady
,
Justin Tyson
,
Rolando Ossowski
,
Robert Gillingham
, and
Shamsuddin Tareq
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
25
February
2010
ISBN: 9781455239108
Petroleum product subsidies have again started to increase with the rebound in international prices. This note reviews recent developments in subsidy levels and argues that reforming the policy framework for settin...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
I. Introduction
A fundamental role of the state lies in its provision of a legal order and in its ability to implement and enforce property rights and other formal rules in an econom...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
1. Introduction
The importance of adequate remuneration in ensuring an honest civil service is widely recognized in the policy debate.
1
The issue o...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
1. Introduction
It has been widely observed that insufficient domestic resource mobilization and wasteful public expenditures are at the root of the adjustment and growth problems fa...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
1. Introduction
In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to understanding the reasons for, and economic consequences of, corruption. The existing literature can be divi...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
1. Introduction
In a world in which governments do not always act in their citizens’ best interest, corrupt politicians may be expected to spend more public resources on those items...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
Introduction
Social sectors in an economy are often characterized by market failures. To correct such failures, governments intervene through the public provision, financing, and reg...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
I. The Growth of Corruption
In recent years, and especially in the 1990s, a phenomenon broadly referred to as corruption has attracted a great deal of attention. In countries develop...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
, and
George Abed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
24
September
2002
ISBN: 9781589061163
1. Introduction
Tax revenue does not collect itself. Instead its collection invites several forms of dishonesty and malpractice: taxpayers may try to evade their legal liabilities, w...
