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Fiscal impulse measures are used in the WEO and elsewhere to indicate the changing impact of the budget on the economy. Such measures are intended to provide more accurate indications of whether the budget is becoming more or less expansionary than would just observing moments in the actual...
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the inflation tax. Accordingly, continued effort is likely to be needed to attain a fiscal position that is sustainable …
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The paper provides a selective survey of methods and findings concerning the impact of tax and welfare policies on … employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …
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The paper surveys the role of financial markets and fiscal institutions in the transformation process going on in Eastern and Central Europe. It highlights (a) the need to create some sort of “social ecological balance” necessary for the working of a modern market economy; (b) the need to...
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Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending … level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased … mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax revenue in future years. The paper concludes …
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This paper analyzes the impact of strained government finances on macroeconomic stability and the transmission of fiscal policy. Using a variant of the model by Curdia and Woodford (2009), we study a "sovereign risk channel" through which sovereign default risk raises funding costs in the...
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tools, including pension reform, tax base broadening (and, if necessary, rate hikes), improved tax administration and some …
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The paper examines fiscal sustainability issues for the case of Eritrea but has wider implications for addressing fiscal and debt sustainability. It begins with a formal definition and explanation of analytical sustainability indicators, followed by an assessment of the causes of fiscal deficits...
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This paper looks at the factors that have to be considered when designing an aggregate expenditure ceiling. It is argued that expenditure ceilings are effective in promoting fiscal discipline and sustainability, but that a number of trade-offs have to be made when setting up a fiscal framework...
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Unlike conventional fiscal sustainability assessments, the Value-at-Risk approach developed in this paper explicitly captures the contribution of key risk variables to public sector vulnerability. In an illustrative application to Ecuador, the VaR approach confirms a significant risk of...
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