Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries

By Naoko C. Kojo, Arye L. Hillman, Emanuele Baldacci

December 1, 2003

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Naoko C. Kojo, Arye L. Hillman, and Emanuele Baldacci. Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

Private investment is the principal transmission channel through which fiscal policy affects growth in high-income countries. In low-income countries, governance and also other considerations suggest that the primary channel is factor productivity. Empirical results reported in this paper confirm this expectation: in low-income countries, factor productivity is some four times more effective than investment as a channel for increasing growth through fiscal policy. Although the private investment response to fiscal contraction may be minor, high-deficit, low-income countries can nonetheless benefit from a reduction in unsustainable fiscal deficits because of governance-related factor productivity responses that increase growth.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Government debt management, Government debt planning, Private investment

Keywords: Deficit, Exchange rate, Low-deficit dummy, WP

Publication Details

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39
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Working Paper No. 2003/237
Stock No:

WPIEA2372003
ISBN:

9781451875737
ISSN:

1018-5941

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