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Title

Fiscal policy, stabilization, and growth : prudence or abstinence? / edited by Guillermo E. Perry, Luis Serven, and Rodrigo Suescun.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Perry, Guillermo.
• Serven, Luis
• Suescun, Rodrigo.

Description

xx, 329 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Latin American development forum series

Subject

• Economic stabilization > Latin America
• Finance, Public > Latin America
• Fiscal policy > Latin America
• Latin America > Economic policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Overview: fiscal policy, economic fluctuations and growth / Guillermo Perry, Luis Serven, Rodrigo Suescun and Timothy Irwin -- Procyclical fiscal policy and volatility -- Fiscal discipline, volatility and growth / Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov -- The size and effectiveness of fiscal automatic stabilizers in Latin America / Rodrigo Suescun -- Fiscal federalism and procyclical spending: the cases of Argentina and Brazil / Federico Sturzenegger and Rogerio Werneck -- Fiscal rules and procyclicality / Guillermo Perry -- Fiscal policy and growth -- Fiscal discipline, public investment and growth / Luis Serven -- Incentives for public investment under fiscal rules / Jack Mintz and Michael Smart -- Improving the SGP through a proper accounting of public investment / Oliver Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi -- Accrual accounting, long-term fiscal projections, and public investment / Timothy Irwin -- Growth and fiscal effects of infrastructure investment in Brazil / Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira and Carlos Hamilton Vasconcelos Araujo.

ISBN

• 9780821370841
• 0821370847
• 9780821370858
• 0821370855

LCCN

^^2007034287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library