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Fiscal policy for economic development: an overview / Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Gabriela Inchauste -- Fiscal policy, expenditure composition, and growth in low-income countries / Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- Persistence of fiscal adjustments and expenditure composition in low-income countries / Emanuele Baldacci ... [et al.] -- Growth, governance, and fiscal policy transmission channels in low-income countries / Emanuele Baldacci, Arye L. Hillman, Naoko Kojo -- External debt, public investment and growth in low-income countries / Benedict Clements, Rina Bhattacharya, Tuan Quoc Nguyen -- A framework for fiscal debt sustainability analysis in low-income countries / Emanuele Baldacci, Kevin Fletcher -- Experience with budgetary convergence in the WAEMU / Ousmane Doré, Paul R. Masson -- The effectiveness of government spending on education and health care in developing and transition economies / Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven, Erwin R. Tiongson -- Public spending on health care and the poor / Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven, Erwin R. Tiongson -- User payments for basic education in low-income countries / Arye L. Hillman, Eva Jenkner -- The efficiency of government expenditure: experiences from Africa / Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven -- Tax policy in developing countries: some lessons from the 1990s and some challenges ahead / Michael Keen, Alejandro Simone -- Social impact of a tax reform: the case of Ethiopia / Sáonia Muänoz, Stanley Sang-Wook Cho -- Foreign aid and revenue response: does the composition of aid matter? / Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- More aid: making it work for the poor / Peter S. Heller, Sanjeev Gupta -- Aid and fiscal management / Aleéx Bulâiér, Timothy Lane -- Foreign aid and consumption smoothing: evidence from global food aid / Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Erwin R. Tiongson -- Fiscal consequences of armed conflict and terrorism in low- and middle-income countries / Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- A comparison between two public expenditure management systems in Africa / Ian Lienert.