IMF WORKING PAPERS

• A Rule-Based Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Framework for Tanzania
  Daehaeng Kim and Mika Saito
  
  
• Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the MAMS Model: An Application to Burkina Faso
  Jan Gottschalk, Vu Manh Le, Hans Lofgren and Kofi Nouve
  
  
• Targeting Social Transfers to the Poor in Mexico
  David Coady and Susan Parker
  
  
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy Options for Dealing with External Shocks: Insights from the GIMF for Colombia
  Benedict Clements, Enrique Flores, and Daniel Leigh
  
  
• A Primer on Fiscal Analysis in Oil Producing Countries
  
Paulo Medas and Daria Zakharova


• Tourism Specialization and Economic Development : Evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage List
  Rabah Arezki, Reda Cherif, and John Piotrowski
  
  
• India's Experience with Fiscal Rules: An Evaluation and the Way Forward
  Alejandro Simone and Petia Topalova
  
  
• How Effective is Fiscal Policy Response in Systemic Banking Crises?
  Emanuele Baldacci, Sanjeev Gupta, and Carlos Mulas-Granados
  
  
• Revenue Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges from Globalization
  Michael Keen and Mario Mansour
  
  
• The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Public-Private Partnerships
  Philippe Burger, Justin Tyson, Izabela Karpowicz and Maria Delgado Coelho
  
  
• Fiscal Policy Rules for Oil-Producing Countries: A Welfare Based Assessment
  Wojcieh Maliszewski
  
  
• Fiscal Incentives Effects of the German Equalization System
  Sven Jari Stehn and Annalisa Fedelino
  
  
• The Challenge of Reforming Budgetary Institutions in Developing Countries
  Richard Allen
  
  
• Global Imbalaces and Petrodollars
  Rabah Arezki and Fuad Hasanov
  
  
A Fiscal Analysis Framework for Oil Producing Countries
Paulo Medas and Daria Zakharova


• Fiscal and Monetary Policy During Downturns: Evidence from the G7
  Daniel Leigh and Seven Jari Stehn
  
  
• The Second Transition: Eastern Europe in Perspective
  Stefania Fabrizio and Daniel Leigh
  
  
• The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets: Evidence from Emerging Markets
  
• Bernardin Akitoby and Thomas Stratmann
  
  
Causes, benefits, and risks of business tax incentives
Alexander Klemm


• How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate? The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi's Growth Performance
  Olivier Basdevant
  
  
• One-Size Fits One: Tailor-Made Responses to Capital Flows
  Daria Zakharova
  
  
• Is it (Still) Mostly Fiscal? Determinants of Sovereign Spreads in Emerging Markets
  Emanuele Baldacci, Sanjeev Gupta, and Amine Mati
  
  
• Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure: The Case of Tanzania
  Teresa Ter-Minassian, Richard Hughes, and Alejandro Hajdenberg
  
  

IMF PUBLICATIONS

• The State of Public Finances: Outlook and Medium-Term Policies After the 2008 Crisis


• Fiscal Policy for the Crisis


• Fiscal Risks: Sources, Disclosure, and Management


• The Size of the Fiscal Expansion: An Analysis for the Largest Countries


• The State of Public Finances: A Cross-Country Fiscal Monitor


• Disclosing Fiscal Risks in the Post-Crisis World


• Collecting Taxes During an Economic Crisis: Challenges and Policy Options


• Fiscal Implications of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis


• Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis


• Companion Paper---The State of Public Finances: Outlook and Medium-Term Policies After the 2008 Crisis


• Why Has the Grass Been Greener on One Side of Hispaniola? A Comparative Growth Analysis of the Dominican Republic and Haiti


• The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries


• Food and Fuel Prices--Recent Developments, Macroeconomic Impact, and Policy Responses


• Food and Fuel Prices--Recent Developments, Macroeconomic Impact, and Policy Responses--An Update


• Food and Fuel Price Subsidies--Issues and Reform Options


• Tanzania: The Story of an African Transition


• Mobilizing Revenue


• Tax Policy and the Crisis: First Thoughts

EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Targeting Performance Under Self-Selection and Administrative Targeting Methods
  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57(3), pp559-587, April, 2009.
  
  
• What Do (and Don't) We Know about the Value Added Tax? A Review of Richard M. Bird and Pierre-Pascal Gendron's The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries
  Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 47, No. 1, March 2009
  
  
• Natural resource endowments and the domestic revenue effort
  European Journal of Political Economy
  
  
• Gauging by Numbers: A First Attempt to Measure the Quality of Public Finances in the EU
  European Economy. Economic Papers 382. August 2009. European Commission. Brussels
  
  
• Politically Optimal Fiscal Policy
  Conference
  
  
• Yet Another View on Why a Home is One's Castle
  Real Estate Economics, Vol. 37, Issue 1, pp. 23-41
  
  
• High and Volatile Treasury Yields in Tanzania: The Role of Strategic Bidding and Auction Microstructure
  South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 77, Issue 2, pp. 257-281
  
  
• "El Annus Horribilis y Las Finanzas Publicas"
  Revista Consejeros (March 2009)
  
  
• Independent Fiscal Agencies
  Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 23, Issue 1, February 2009
  
  
• Effect of Remittances on Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
  World Development, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2009, pages 104-115
  
  
• Institutions and the External Capital Structure of Countries
  Journal of International Money and Finance (Vol. 28. No. 3, 2009, pp. 367-391)
  
  
• Poland: Stabilization, Transition, Reform, 1990-91
  in Brau, Eduard, and Ian MacDonald (eds.), 2009, Successes of the International Monetary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work, Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan
  
  
• Capital Income Taxation and Economic Growth in Open Economies.
  International Tax and Public Finance, December 2008, Vol. 15, pp. 668-692.
  
  
• VAT, tariffs, and withholding: Border taxes and informality in developing countries
  Journal of Public Economics, Issues 10-11, Vol. 92, October 2008
  
  
• The Flat Tax(es): Principles and Experience
  International Tax and Public Finance, December 2008, Vol. 15, pp. 712-751
  
  
• Economic Integration and the relationship between profit and wage taxes
  Public Choice (2009) 138: 423–446
  
  
• Human Capital Expenditures for the Poor and Social Safety Nets
  in Fan, Shenngen (ed.), 2008, Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons for Developing Countries. Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  
  
• Post-Conflict Countries: Strategy for Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions
  in Addison, Tony, and Tilman Bruck (eds.), 2008, Making Peace Work: The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction. Studies in Development Economics and Policy series. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan
  
  
• Pension Reform and Financial Markets: Encouraging Household Savings fro Retirement
  in Holtzmann, R., L. MacKellar, and J. Rapansek (eds.), 2009, Pension Reform in South-Eastern Europe: Linking to Labor and Financial Market Reforms World Bank and Center for Excellence in Finance, Washington DC.
  
  

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