Public Financial Management and Fiscal Outcomes in Sub-Saharan African Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries /

This paper examines, in a formal econometric framework, the linkages between public financial management and fiscal outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. Similar analyses have been done for Latin America, Europe, and the United States, but none in the context of low-income countries. Using publ...

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Autor principal: Cabezon, Ezequiel
Altres autors: Prakash, Tej
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/217
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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