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Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy

New Strategies, Old Loan Conditions: Do the New IMF and World Bank Loans Support Countries’ Poverty Reduction Strategies? The Case of Uganda

Apr 19, 2002

The study presented on the occasion of the spring 2002 meeting of the World Bank and the IMF, looks at the new structural adjustment loans to Uganda in light of

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Making Aid Accountable and Effective: The Challenge for the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Accra, Ghana 2008

Jul 19, 2007

In September 2008 heads of government, multilateral institutions, and civil society organizations (CSOs) from around the world will gather in Accra, Ghana for the Third High Level Forum on aid

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How Long Will the Dalits Continue to be Deprived of Their Due Shares? A Case Study on the Special Component Plan Budgets in Rajasthan

Oct 19, 2007

This study finds that the Indian government budget denies the Dalit population a fair share of government expenditure.

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Research on Incentives for Fiscal Openness for Governments: Interim Synthesis Note

Mar 01, 2015

March, 2015 | By Paolo de Renzio (GIFT) and the International Budget Partnership

In order to promote deeper understanding around the incentives agenda for fiscal openness across the world, GIFT

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Incentives for Fiscal Openness for Governments

Why Policymakers Commit to Transparency: Legitimacy, Insurance, Monitoring, and the Importance of the News Media as Mediator

Mar 01, 2015

March, 2015 | By Gregory Michener (GIFT) and the International Budget Partnership

By now it has become apparent that not all ‘transparency’ is transparent, nor is transparency an unalloyed good

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Why Policymakers Commit to Transparency

Revenue Estimation, the Budget Balance and Fiscal Accountability in South Africa: Some Recent Experiences

Sep 19, 2008

This model report provides an example of how civil society organizations can analyze the fiscal framework and the assumptions used by the government to set the taxing and spending parameters

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A Fair Share of the Budget: Principles and Practices in Public Resource Distribution in Kenya

Aug 11, 2016

August 2016 | by John Kinuthia and Jason Lakin, Ph.D. , IBP Kenya

Kenya’s 2010 constitution sought to establish a fairer way of managing public finance, stating that “expenditure shall

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Principles & Practices : Public Resource Distribution in Kenya

The politics of tax reform in low- and middle-income countries

Oct 08, 2020

This paper surveys the literature on the political economy of domestic tax reform, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The review looks at the main players involved in

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Reflection points for civic actors on the politics of tax reform

Oct 09, 2020

As part of IBP’s new Tax Equity Initiative, we are developing research and tools to help civic actors deepen their engagement with tax reform and to learn from each other.

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The Seven Habits of Effective Aid: Best Practices, Challenges and Open Questions

Feb 19, 2005

This paper looks at the challenges associated with achieving best practices for aid effectiveness that leaders will discuss at the ‘High-Level Forum on Harmonisation and Alignment for Aid Effectiveness’ to

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