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Health Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, Food and Drinks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review of Policy Content, Actors, Process and Context [PDF]
BackgroundTaxation of tobacco, food, alcohol and other beverages has gained renewed attention in responding to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). While largely built on evidence from high-income countries (HICs), the projected economic and health benefits
Lana M. Elliott +2 more
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Measures against Forestalling in Tobacco Companies: European Experience and Conclusions for Ukraine [PDF]
Despite the effectiveness of excise policies to reduce the consumption of tobacco products, Ukraine, like most European countries, along with illegal traffic got the problem of optimizing the payment of excise tax on tobacco products in the form of ...
Korotun Volodymyr I. +2 more
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Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Space and Procyclical Fiscal Policy [PDF]
In this paper we analyse the interaction of fiscal rules and fiscal space. We find strong evidence for fiscal rules being associated with higher fiscal space. Furthermore, the analysis shows that countries with more fiscal space tend to have higher discretionary expenditures, but that this effect is significantly reduced if fiscal rules are in place. A
Nerlich, Carolin, Reuter, Wolf Heinrich
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Local Public Investment Drivers in Peru
Around half of Peru’s public investment is made by local governments. Through the estimation of a dynamic panel data model for 1796 local governments between 2010 and 2018, we find that the most important drivers for local public investment are: (i ...
Alvaro Jimenez +2 more
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Fiscal Theory and Practice in Yorkist England: The Regression from a “Tax” to a “Domain” State
This work scrutinises the B. P. Wolffe’s influential argument that the Yorkist «land revenue experiment» transformed the English crown’s finances. It pioneers quantitative estimates of the Yorkist royal budget which emphasise the limited net gains ...
Alex Brayson
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Elections, Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Illusion [PDF]
This paper tests the joint hypotheses that policymakers engage in fiscal policy opportunism and that voters respond by rewarding that opportunism with higher vote margins. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of fiscal illusion on the previous two dimensions.
Paulo Reis Mourão +1 more
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Fiscal Solvency and Fiscal Forecasting in Europe [PDF]
This paper analyzes two features of concern to policy-makers in the countries of the prospective European Monetary Union: the solvency of their government's finances and the accuracy of fiscal forecasts. Extending the existing methodology of solvency tests, the paper finds that, with few exceptions, EU governments are insolvent, albeit debt/GDP ratios ...
Artis, Michael J +1 more
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Neste trabalho, temos por objetivo analisar as ocorrências do termo fiscal em um corpus da terminologia da Economia, com o intuito de verificar os padrões de formação mais recorrentes constituídos por esse adjetivo, as informações semânticas veiculadas ...
Lucimara Alves da Conceição Costa +1 more
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Fiscal Stabilisation Policy and Fiscal Institutions [PDF]
In this paper we analyse counter-cyclical fiscal policy within the context of a microfounded analysis of business-cycle stabilization. We show that tax and spending instruments can have a useful counter-cyclical role, even after allowing for the distortionary nature of the instruments and the need for debt sustainability.
Campbell Leith, Simon Wren-lewis
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Fiscal Space and Increasing Fiscal Resilience [PDF]
The paper compares fiscal cyclicality across regions and countries from 1960 to 2016. It finds that more than half of 170 countries analyzed in seven regions had, in more recent years, limited fiscal space, and that their fiscal policy was either cyclical or procyclical.
Aizenman, Joshua +3 more
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