Papua New Guinea : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix.

This paper examines and tests the existence of political budget cycles in Papua New Guinea during the period 1988-2004. Several factors point to the existence of political budget cycles in Papua New Guinea. The paper provides an overview of the political business cycle literature, and Papua New Guin...

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Autor corporatiu: International Monetary Fund
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Col·lecció:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2007/112
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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Sumari:This paper examines and tests the existence of political budget cycles in Papua New Guinea during the period 1988-2004. Several factors point to the existence of political budget cycles in Papua New Guinea. The paper provides an overview of the political business cycle literature, and Papua New Guinea's political structure and processes. It also describes the data set and the empirical methods used to test for the presence of election-influenced spending, and presents the results of a time-series analysis.
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