Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Fiscal Policy for Economic Development: An Overview -- Fiscal Policy, Expenditure Composition, and Growth in Low-Income Countries -- Persistence of Fiscal Adjustments and Expenditure Composition in Low-Income Countries -- Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries -- External Debt, Public Investment, and Growth in Low-Income Countries -- A Framework for Fiscal Debt Sustainability Analysis in Low-Income Countries -- Experience with Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU -- The Effectiveness of Government Spending on Education and Health Care in Developing and Transition Economies -- Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor -- User Payments for Basic Education in Low-Income Countries -- The Efficiency of Government Expenditure: Experiences from Africa -- Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Some Lessons from the 1990s and Some Challenges Ahead -- Social Impact of a Tax Reform: The Case of Ethiopia -- Foreign Aid and Revenue Response: Does the Composition of Aid Matter? -- More Aid-Making It Work for the Poor -- Aid and Fiscal Management -- Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid -- Fiscal Consequences of Armed Conflict and Terrorism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa.