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Finance & Development, September 1988
Author:
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
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Series:
Finance & Development
Volume/Issue:
Volume 25: Issue 003
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Sep 1988
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616353742.022
ISBN:
9781616353742
ISSN:
0015-1947
Pages:
58
Keywords:
FD; F&D; UN commodity trade data file; enterprise; market; government; industrializing country; education indicator; COMTRADE figure; Tolal fertility rate; Privatization; Public enterprises; Inflation; Global; Asia and Pacific; Sub-Saharan Africa; Europe; Africa
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This paper describes the need to improve public finance for development. The paper underscores that public finance affects aggregate resource use and, together with monetary and exchange rate policies, influences the balance of payments, the accumulation of external debt, and the inflation, interest, and exchange rates. It highlights that public spending taxes, user charges, and borrowing also affect the behavior of producers and consumers, and influence the distribution of wealth and income in any economy.
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Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development
ISSN:
0015-1947
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund