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Inequality and Poverty across Generations in the European Union

Author/Editor: Tingyun Chen, Jean-Jacques Hallaert, Alexander Pitt, Haonan Qu, Maximilien Queyranne, Alaina Rhee, Anna Shabunina, Jérôme Vandenbussche, Irene Yackovlev.

Release Date:January, 2018

This SDN studies the evolution of inequality across age groups leading up to and since the global financial crisis, as well as implications for fiscal and labor policies. Europe’s population is more...



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Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies: An Application to Angola

Author/Editor: Christine J Richmond, Irene Yackovlev, Shu-Chun S Yang.

Release Date:June, 2013

Natural resource revenues are an increasingly important financing source for public investment in many developing economies. Investing volatile resource revenues, however, may subject an economy to more...



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Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Low-Income Countries

Author/Editor: Sophia Gollwitzer, Eteri Kvintradze, Tej Prakash, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Era Dabla-Norris, Richard Allen, Irene Yackovlev, Victor Duarte Lledo.

Release Date:March, 2010

This paper presents, for the first time, multi-dimensional indices of the quality of budget institutions in low-income countries. The indices allow for benchmarking against the performance of more...



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Cyclical Patterns of Government Expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa : Facts and Factors

Author/Editor: Irene Yackovlev, Victor Duarte Lledo, Lucie Gadenne.

Release Date:December, 2009

This paper documents cyclical patterns of government expenditures in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970 and explains variation between countries and over time. Controlling for endogeneity, it finds more...



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Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis

Author/Editor: Shamsuddin Tareq, Andrew Berg, Victor Duarte Lledo, Antonio Spilimbergo, Rolando Ossowski, Irene Yackovlev, Norbert Funke, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Martin Schindler.

Release Date:May, 2009



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The Global Financial Crisis: Impact on WAEMU Member Countries and Policy Options : Impact on WAEMU Member Countries and Policy Options

Author/Editor: Johannes Mueller, Irene Yackovlev, Hans Weisfeld.

Release Date:March, 2009

Most WAEMU countries are likely to see economic growth deteriorate over the next twoyears as a result of the global economic crisis, and some WAEMU countries will be moreseverely affected by the more...



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The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in Honduras

Author/Editor: David Locke Newhouse, Irene Yackovlev, Robert Gillingham.

Release Date:July, 2008

This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully more...



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