Key medium- and longer-term fiscal issues faced by transition economies are reviewed, including government solvency and the sustainability of the fiscal-financial-monetary program. The paper aims to assist the design and implementation of future Fund programs and to contribute to the debate...

The paper analyses the role of fiscal policy in the restoration of internal and external macroeconomic equilibrium and in achieving structural adjustment i.e. major changes in the patterns of sectoral and intertemporal resource allocation. The focus is on developing and new industrial countries...

The paper analyses the role of fiscal policy in the restoration of internal and external macroeconomic equilibrium and in achieving structural adjustment i.e. major changes in the patterns of sectoral and intertemporal resource allocation. The focus is on developing and new industrial countries...