Author/Editor: Andres Gonzalez, Etibar Jafarov, Diego Rodriguez Guzman, Chris Walker.

Release Date:February, 2022

Bolivia has achieved noteworthy success over the past 15 years in raising incomes, reducing poverty, and maintaining macroeconomic stability by deploying commodity revenues to finance transfers, more...

Author/Editor: Etibar Jafarov, Rodolfo Maino, Marco Pani.

Release Date:September, 2019

Financial repression (legal restrictions on interest rates, credit allocation, capital movements, and other financial operations) was widely used in the past but was largely abandoned in the more...

Author/Editor: Victoria Gunnarsson, Etibar Jafarov.

Release Date:May, 2008

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of government spending on health care and education in Croatia by using the so-called Data Envelopment Analysis. The analysis finds evidence of significant more...

Author/Editor: Daniel Leigh, Etibar Jafarov.

Release Date:October, 2007

This paper considers long-term fiscal policy options in Norway, the world's fifth largest oil exporter, in light of the substantial expected increase in pension outlays. It compares the current more...

Author/Editor: Marco Pani, Etibar Jafarov, Clinton R Shiells.

Release Date:October, 2005

This paper investigates whether the linkages between economic growth in Russia and growth in other countries in the region have weakened over time, particularly following the 1998 Russian crisis. It more...