Fiscal management in adjustment lending /

Datta - Mitra, Jayati

Fiscal management in adjustment lending / Jayati Datta - Mitra - Washington : World Bank, 1997 - xviii, 179 p.

Setting the stage, 25. -- The typical crisis profile, 25. -- The centrality of fiscal reform, 27. -- Coverage of the report, 27. -- Fiscal management in SALs/SECALs : A close-up view, 30. -- What was the quality of fiscal diagnosis?, 31. -- Was the quality of conditionality adequate?, 39. -- Was implementation adequate?, 43. -- Tax reform, 51. -- What the study found, 51. -- Principles of tax reform, 52. -- Precision and content of tax conditionality, 54. -- How successfull were tax conditionalities implemented?, 61. -- How effective was tax reform?, 61. -- Lessons and directions for the future, 66. -- Tax administration reform, 71. -- What the study found, 71. -- The ends and means of tax administration reform, 71. -- Bank involvement in tax administration reform, 75. -- Tracking implementation of reforms, 79. -- Measuring outcomes, 80. -- Public expenditure reform, 83. -- What the study found, 83. -- A framework for evaluating public sector reforms, 85. -- Expenditure patterns before adjustment lending, 87. -- Bank conditionalisties, 88. -- Implementation of conditionalities, 94. -- How effective were expenditure reform conditions?, 94. -- Fiscal adjustment under SALs and SECAL : An aggregate view and conclusion, 106. -- Were fiscal reduced?, 106. -- How did external factors affect outcomes?, 109. -- How was fiscal adjustment achived?, 113

HJ 1620 D234f 1997