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“sanjeev mr gupta”

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  • Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Yongzheng Yang ...
    In recent years, African policymakers have increasingly resorted to regional trade arrangements (RTAs) as a substitute for broad-based trade liberalization. This trend has long-term implications for the effectiveness of trade policy as a tool for poverty reduction and growth. This paper examines the record of RTAs in promoting trade and investment. It also explores policy measures that may help ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, George Mr. Abed ...
    This volume presents 18 recent IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can most effectively be combated to improve governance, increase economic growth, and reduce poverty. The authors examine how civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, how corruption retards the growth of small and medium-sized ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Forging New Trade Links with Asia

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Kevin Carey, Ulrich Mr. Jacoby ...
    What is the impact on trade in sub-Saharan Africa of the recent rapid growth in China and other Asian countries, and the associated commodity price boom? This paper looks at how trading patterns (both destinations and composition) are changing in sub-Saharan Africa. Has the region managed to diversify the products it sells from commodities to manufactured goods? Has it expanded the range of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Social Protection in Transition Countries: Emerging Issues

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Ke-young Mr. Chu ...
    Series Book 96 - IMF Policy Discussion Papers

    $6.99 CAD

  • Economic Transition and Social Protection-Issues and Agenda for Reform

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta ...
    Series Book 98 - IMF Policy Discussion Papers

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Fiscal Dimensions of Adjustment in Low-Income Countries

    by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Claire Mrs. Liuksila, Henri Mr. Lorie, Walter Mr. Mahler, Karim Mr. Nashashibi ...
    Series Book 95 - Occasional Papers
    A strengthened fiscal position is at the core of most economic adjustment programs supported by IMF lending, especially for the poorer countries that draw on the IMF's structural adjustment facilities. This paper reviews developments in 23 countries and evaluates their experience with fiscal and structural adjustment, including their efforts to design social safety nets to cushion the effects of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications

    by Benedict J. Mr. Clements, Trevor Serge Coleridge Mr. Alleyne, Carlo A. Mr. Sdralevich, David Coady, Stefania Ms. Fabrizio, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta ...
    Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. Although they are aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital-intensive industries, reducing ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Inequality and Fiscal Policy

    by Benedict Mr. Clements, Ruud Mooij, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Michael Mr. Keen ...
    The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequality while simultaneously promoting economic efficiency and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Equity and Efficiency in the Reform of Price Subsidies: A Guide for Policymakers

    by Juan Mr. Cordoba, Robert Mr. Gillingham, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Ali Mr. Mansoor, Christian Mr. Schiller, Marijn Verhoeven ...
    This text provides guidance to policymakers on how to design and implement sound price-subsidy reforms. It draws on the experience of price-subsidy reform in 28 countries. The authors discuss economic and political considerations and make several recommendations concerning the speed of reform and social protection mechanisms. They discuss how the social impact of reform can be limited by ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Fiscal Management of Scaled-Up Aid

    by Kevin Mr. Fletcher, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Duncan Mr. Last, Gerd Mr. Schwartz, Shamsuddin Mr. Tareq, Richard Allen, Isabell Adenauer ...
    The international community has committed to scaling up aid and improving aid delivery to low-income countries to help them meet the Millennium Development Goals. Other "emerging" donors, public and private, are increasing their assistance, and debt-relief initiatives are creating space for new borrowing. Remittances to low-income countries have been on a precipitous rise, and many countries are ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Is the PRGF Living Up to Expectations?

    by Benedict Mr. Clements, Gabriela Ms. Inchauste, Nita Mrs. Thacker, Thomas Mr. Dorsey, Shamsuddin Mr. Tareq, Emanuele Mr. Baldacci, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Mark Mr. Plant ...
    Series Book 216 - Occasional Papers
    In late 1999 the IMF established the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) to integrate the objectives of poverty reduction and growth more fully into its operations for the poorest countries, and to base these operations on national poverty reduction strategies prepared by the country with broad participation of key stakeholders. A review of the program would be conducted two years later. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Helping Countries Develop: The Role of Fiscal Policy

    by Benedict Mr. Clements, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Gabriela Ms. Inchauste ...
    Fiscal policy can foster growth and human development through a number of different channels. These include the macroeconomic (for example, through the influence of the budget deficit on growth) as well as the microeconomic (through its influence on the efficiency of resource use). But how precisely do these channels work in developing countries? What kinds of tax and expenditure policies should ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD