Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence
This paper reviews evidence published in the last 10 years that has added to our understanding of the effects of aid on government spending and tax effort in recipient countries, with a discussion of when (general) budget support is a fiscally efficient aid modality. Three generalizations are permit...
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| description | This paper reviews evidence published in the last 10 years that has added to our understanding of the effects of aid on government spending and tax effort in recipient countries, with a discussion of when (general) budget support is a fiscally efficient aid modality. Three generalizations are permitted by the evidence: aid finances government spending; the extent to which aid is fungible is over-stated and even where it is fungible this does not appear to make the aid less effective; and there is no systematic effect of aid on tax effort. Beyond these conclusions effects are country-specific. |
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| spelling | nottingham-297902020-05-04T16:41:13Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29790/ Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence Morrissey, Oliver This paper reviews evidence published in the last 10 years that has added to our understanding of the effects of aid on government spending and tax effort in recipient countries, with a discussion of when (general) budget support is a fiscally efficient aid modality. Three generalizations are permitted by the evidence: aid finances government spending; the extent to which aid is fungible is over-stated and even where it is fungible this does not appear to make the aid less effective; and there is no systematic effect of aid on tax effort. Beyond these conclusions effects are country-specific. Elsevier 2014-01-29 Article PeerReviewed Morrissey, Oliver (2014) Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence. World Development, 69 . pp. 98-105. ISSN 0305-750X aid fiscal effects fungibility budget support http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X13002921 doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.12.008 doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.12.008 |
| spellingShingle | aid fiscal effects fungibility budget support Morrissey, Oliver Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| title | Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| title_full | Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| title_fullStr | Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| title_short | Aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| title_sort | aid and government fiscal behavior: assessing recent evidence |
| topic | aid fiscal effects fungibility budget support |
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