Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare /

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures that a...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Matovu, John
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/015
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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