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Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries / Ethan Ilzetzki
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ilzetzki, Ethan
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Debt Dynamics.
- Debt Markets.
- Developing Countries.
- Economic Growth.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Fiscal Policy.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Structural Vector Autoregressive Methods.
- Tax Law.
- Taxation & Subsidies.
- Local Subjects:
- Debt Dynamics.
- Debt Markets.
- Developing Countries.
- Economic Growth.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Fiscal Policy.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Structural Vector Autoregressive Methods.
- Tax Law.
- Taxation & Subsidies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2011
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Using a new tax database for 28 countries and a variety of econometric methods, this paper contributes to the debate on the effects of fiscal policy on economic activity in a number of ways. The analysis finds that tax cuts have a stimulative effect on economic growth in developing countries. Lowering the personal income tax rate by 1 percentage point, or cutting revenues by 1 gross domestic product of gross domestic product increases gross domestic product by 0.3-0.4 percent on impact and 0.8 percent in the long run. The author finds that cuts in personal income taxes are more effective in stimulating growth than cuts in corporate or valued added tax rates. The author incorporates debt dynamics into a fiscal vector autoregression model for a number of developing countries. Existing estimates of the effects of fiscal policy on growth use linear time-series methods, which may assess the effects of fiscal policy along a debt-path that is unsustainable. Incorporating the non-linear relationship between government expenditure, taxes, and debt alters estimates of the impact of fiscal policy on gross domestic product in several countries. In Brazil, for example, conventional time-series methods may overstate the effects of fiscal policy on gross domestic product, by ignoring the detrimental effects of debt accumulation.
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