Aid scaling up : do wage bill ceilings stand in the way?

Aid scaling up : do wage bill ceilings stand in the way? / prepared by Annalisa Fedelino, Gerd Schwart, and Marijn Verhoeven.

This paper assesses whether the scaling up of aid and the resulting increase in government spending that is needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be hampered by wage bill ceilings that are often part of government programs supported by the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Grow...

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Main Authors: Fedelino, Annalisa (Author), Schwartz, Gerd (Author), Verhoeven, Marijn (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Dept., 2006.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/06/106.
Subjects:
International Monetary Fund.
International Monetary Fund
Wages > Econometric models.
Labor policy > Econometric models.
Economic assistance > Econometric models.
Economic assistance > Econometric models
Labor policy > Econometric models
Wages > Econometric models
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. SCALING UP AID AND THE ROLE OF THE IMF
  • III. WHY WAGE BILL CEILINGS?
  • IV. WAGE BILL CONDITIONALITY IN PRACTICE
  • V. DO WAGE BILL CEILINGS ACCOMMODATE DONOR-FINANCED WAGE SPENDING IN PRIORITY SECTORS?
  • VI. IMPROVING WAGE BILL CONDITIONALITY
  • REFERENCES

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