In this paper, Ter-Minassian and Fedelino assess the impact of the 2008-09 global financial crisis on sub-national government (SNG) finances. The crisis affected sub-national budgets both directly (via the decline in own revenues and upward pressure on cyclically-sensitive spending programs) and...

This paper shows that the impact of changes in budgetary variables on real GDP, investment, consumption and employment varies in sign and magnitude in times of crisis and non-crisis. To this end, a regime-switching process is embedded in standard macroeconomic equations in order to take into...

La contabilidad ha adquirido no sólo una alta visibilidad como disciplina, sino que ha contribuido con su quehacer a crear auténticas crisis económicas; en honor a su creciente importancia, ya pueden denominarse crisis contables. Se tomarán algunas ilustraciones sobre la crisis de la...

The increased presence of beggars both children and youths at every public place, places of worships, filling stations, restaurants, super markets in most northern states in Nigeria is becoming a matter of concern to every serious minded Nigerian. The issue of Almajiri, a Hausa word meaning...

For the last years many countries of the world were experiencing the global financial and economic crisis and the most economies had negative impact from its consequences. Uzbekistan, while undertaking measures for prevention, overcoming and neutralizing of the consequences of this crisis, at...

This Paper discusses the economic impacts of youths and children in developing continent like Africa which has had protracted and deep-rooted economic crisis that has had a profoundly negative impacts on youths and children mostly young people growing up in the midst of this crisis. It is...

Ghana is in the midst of a severe but not unprecedented macroeconomic crisis. This paper helps to evaluate the government’s policy options by (1) explaining the crisis’ causes, and (2) comparing it to previous macroeconomic crises and the policies that corrected them. Two large shocks are to...

Long-term unemployment more than doubled during the UK’s Great Recession. Only a small fraction of this persistent increase can be accounted for by the changing composition of unemployment across personal and work history characteristics. Through extending a well-known stocks-flows...

For the last several years, the congressional budget process has jumped from self-created crisis to self-created crisis. Debt limit, shutdown, sequester, potential withholding of congressional pay, and others beyond that — all of these crises coming in quick succession and requiring Congress...

This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...