Includes bibliographical references and index.

Investing in development : the Millennium Development Goals, aid and sustainable capital accumulation / Rathin Roy and Antoine Heuty -- Fiscal space for what? Analytical issues from a human development perspective / Rathin Roy, Antoine Heuty and Emmanuel Letouzé -- Fiscal space for public investment : towards a human development approach / Rathin Roy, Antoine Heuty and Emmanuel Letouzé -- The fiscal space conjecture : theoretical reflections / Sanjay G. Reddy -- Understanding fiscal expansions / Francisco Rodríguez -- A review of four case studies on fiscal space : Morocco, Senegal, Thailand and Venezuela / Indira Rajaraman -- Guaranteeing fiscal space for human development in Morocco / Jean-Françoise Brun, Gérard Chambas and Fouzi Mourji -- Securing fiscal space for the Millennium Development Goals in Senegal / Adama Diaw, Samuel Guérineau and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney -- The fiscal space of Thailand : an historical analysis / Karel Jansen and Choedchai Khannabha -- Plenty of room? Fiscal space in a resource-abundant economy : the case of Venezuela / María Antonia Moreno and Francisco Rodríguez -- Appendix : selected economic indicators (2006) for Morocco, Senegal, Thailand and Venezuela.