Documents et rapports
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Public spending and growth in an economic and monetary union : the case of West Africa (anglais)
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)...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 100635 Date du document: 1 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Moreno-Dodson,Blanca,Bayraktar,Nihal
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Can tax simplification help lower tax corruption ? (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6988 Date du document: 1 juillet 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Awasthi,Rajul,Bayraktar,Nihal
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Tax capacity and tax effort : extended cross-country analysis from 1994 to 2009 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6252 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Le,Tuan Minh,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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Post-HIPC growth dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5924 Date du document: 1 décembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Fofack,Hippolyte L.
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How public spending can help you grow : an empirical analysis for developing countries (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 59381 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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How can public spending help you grow ? an empirical analysis for developing countries (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5367 Date du document: 1 juillet 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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Micro efficiency and macro growth (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5267 Date du document: 1 avril 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4430 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
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Specification of investment functions in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4171 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Fofack,Hippolyte L.
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Banking sector openness and economic growth (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4019 Date du document: 1 octobre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Wang, Yan
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Linking public investment programs and SPAHD macro models : methodology and application to aid requirements (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3944 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3750 Date du document: 1 octobre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3506 Date du document: 1 février 2005 Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
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Roads out of poverty? assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3490 Date du document: 1 janvier 2005 Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3416 Date du document: 1 septembre 2004 Auteur: Bayraktar,Nihal,Yan Wang