Fiscal policy, stabilization, and growth in developing countries / edited by Mario I. Blejer and Ke-young Chu.

Includes bibliographical references.

The papers in this volume analyze the roles of fiscal policy in promoting and sustaining stabilization and growth in developing countries. In examining these crucial roles, the papers stress the importance of considering, in the analysis, the close interdependence between fiscal, monetary, and external sector policies. This book investigates linkages among components of the public sector, as well as between macro and micro aspects of fiscal policy, in developing countries.

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Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction -- Mario I. Blejer and Ke-young Chu -- Part II. Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth -- 1. Fiscal Policy, Growth, and the Design of Stabilization Programs -- 2. Fiscal Policy and Mobilization of Savings for Growth -- 3. Fiscal Rigidities, Public Debt, and Capital Flight -- 4. High Inflation, Heterodox Stabilization, and Fiscal Policy -- Part III. Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and the World Environment -- 5. Fiscal Policy Responses to Exogenous Shocks in Developing Countries

6. External Shocks and Fiscal Adjustment in Developing Countries: Recent Experiences7. Transmission of Effects of the Fiscal Deficit in Industrial Countries to the Fiscal Deficit of Developing Countries -- Part IV. Interaction of Policies -- 8. Fiscal Expansion and External Current Account Imbalances -- 9. Lags in Tax Collection and the Case for Inflationary Finance: Theory with Simulations -- 10. Government Spending, the Real Interest Rate, and Liquidity-Constrained Consumers' Behavior in Developing Countries -- 11. Fiscal Dimensions of Trade Policy

Part V. Fiscal Policy Issues in Selected Countries12. Effects of a Budget Deficit on the Current Account Balance: The Case of the Philippines -- 13. The Inflationary Process in Israel, Fiscal Policy, and the Economic Stabilization Plan of July 1985 -- Biographical Sketches

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