Aid and fiscal deficits: Lessons from Uganda on the implications for macroeconomic management and fiscal sustainability

Development Policy Review

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-213

  Brownbridge, Martin ^a   Tumusiime mutebile, Emmanuel ^a  

^a Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; BUDGET DEFICIT; DEBT; FISCAL POLICY; MACROECONOMICS; MONETARY POLICY; REAL EXCHANGE RATE; SUSTAINABILITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 33847278871     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2007.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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