Underlying Factors Driving Fiscal Effort in Emerging Market Economies /

Using a panel dataset of 34 emerging market countries for the period 1990-2002, we examine the roles of various economic, political, and institutional variables in determining fiscal effort, as proxied by the primary surplus. We find that while fiscal effort increases, as expected, with the level of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baig, Taimur
Other Authors: Abiad, Abdul
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/106
Online Access:Full text available on IMF