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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Fiscal Sustainability"”.
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Local Fiscal Sustainability within American Federalism
… (OPEB) liabilities impose major threats to local fiscal sustainability, which increases governments' default risk and crowds out funding for essential local services. To close the funding gaps, localities may apply a wide range of fiscal instruments, including increasing taxes, fees, and user …
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Analysing the fiscal sustainability of Namibia`s old age grant
… However, this provision comes at a cost and has fiscal ramifications if the necessary parameters are not kept in check and balanced on time. The thrust of this study is to analyse the fiscal sustainability of Namibia’ Old Age Grant. It is concerned with three main objectives; first, to ascertain …
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Analysing the effects of debt financing on fiscal sustainability of the City of Windhoek
… As a result, they are exposed to financial and sustainability hazards. However, the mounting debt levels reported in the Municipality of Windhoek financials is a source of concern since it may eventually reach unsustainable levels. This study's main objective was to investigate the impact of …
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Oil Boom, Fiscal Policy and Economic Development: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Role of Alternative Fiscal Rules In Ghana’s Emerging Petroleum Economy
The objectives of the study are to assess the fiscal sustainability and development impacts of Ghana’s fiscal rule for allocating petroleum revenues to the annual budget against alternative fiscal rules - the permanent income and the bird-in-hand rules. Fiscal sustainability is measured by …
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Essays in Currency Markets
… third chapter examines the relationship between fiscal sustainability and nominal exchange rate. Using the annual change in debt to GDP ratio as our measure of fiscal sustainability, we find that fiscal sustainability contains predictive information on exchange rate in both the time-series and …
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Petroleum resources, linkages and development: the case of Oman
… and (4) the underlying issues associated with fiscal sustainability when oil income ceases.
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Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability for Macroeconomic Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
This dissertation investigates the role of fiscal rules for fiscal space, debt sustainability dynamics, and macroeconomic stability in economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated on the premise that fiscal policy plays a primary role in a country's policy undercurrents, and that fiscal …
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Cooperative Pathways: Insights from Teacher Experiences on Improving Union and District Cooperation
… building strategies, engagement efforts, and fiscal sustainability.</p>
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A Critical Assessment of the Sustainability of South Africa's Fiscal Policy and Related Institutional Frameworks
… therefore important to consider the question of fiscal sustainability in the South African context. This study ultimately aimed to test the sustainability of South Africa’s fiscal policy and public debt, with fiscal policy defined as the satisfaction of the intertemporal budget constraint. The …
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The Political Economy of Internal Adjustment in the Baltic States: Explaining Responses to the Crisis /
… i.e. kept fixed exchange rates and achieved fiscal sustainability via fiscal consolidation. Furthermore, it asks why Estonia was able to handle the crisis most successfully. Based on the theories of currency crises and fiscal consolidation, a theoretical model is constructed. The empirical …
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Questions of resilience in municipal finance response to a shock event: a case study of the Cape Town drought
… revenue, there is significant concern around the fiscal sustainability of the municipality as more and more households are developing their own water supply in the form of rainwater tanks and boreholes, which is anticipated to decrease the municipal revenue gained from water tariffs dramatically …
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Fiscal interdependence, fiscal and monetary policy interaction and the optimal design of EMU
The research looks at the design of fiscal and monetary policy in EMU. The characteristics of the "economic constitution" established in the Maastricht treaty are analysed to test their robustness to different hypothesis about fiscal sustainability and fiscal and monetary policy interaction. …
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Public health, free movement and macroeconomic coordination : mapping the evolving governance of European Union health policy
… the focus of the European project has turned to fiscal sustainability and the strengthening of collective economic governance, health policy has been swept into frameworks designed for the oversight of macroeconomic policy and national expenditure. Crucially, these frameworks extend EU health …
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Its not you, its me: an analysis of Multilateral Bank Finance in Botswana
… while highlighting the country's cautious fiscal approach. Unlike many developing nations where economic growth, public expenditure, and foreign reserves directly influence external borrowing, Botswana's multilateral bank financing patterns are primarily shaped by its trade balance and …
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Contemporary Patient Safety and the Challenges for New Zealand
… These failures drive up costs and threaten the fiscal sustainability of healthcare in NZ.
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on economic growth in Thailand
… investment on economic growth under Thailand‟s fiscal sustainability framework. A recursive supply-side model based on the Standard Neoclassical Model framework is used using Thai national data on public revenue (taxes, non-tax revenue and debt) to estimate infrastructure investment. An …
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Issues in international economics: an empirical study on the sustainability, external debt and reserves management.
… an analysis of a country’s current account and fiscal sustainability position, the role of external debt in economic growth, and the reserves and debt management.<br/>The main intention of the first essay (comprising Chapter 2) is to analyze the sustainability of the current account and fiscal …
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A system dynamics modeling of incentive policies to increase electric vehicle adoption in Indonesia
… modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of fiscal policies, such as purchase subsidies, VAT reductions, electricity incentives, and infrastructure support, in accelerating EV adoption and reducing carbon emissions. The model consists of three interconnected subsystems: fiscal budget (APBN), …