China weathered the global financial crisis better than most, thanks to a large and timely stimulus. This stimulus, however, was mainly in the form of off-budget infrastructure spending and thus not visible in the headline fiscal data. We construct a time series for the augmented fiscal deficit...

Ziel der für diese Studie durchgeführten Untersuchung ist es, die Entwicklung und Lage der Kommunalfinanzen im Freistaat Sachsen zu dokumentieren und zu analysieren. Im Vergleich mit ost- und westdeutschen Kommunen wurde geprüft, wieweit der fiskalische Konvergenzprozeß auf kommunaler Ebene...

Das ifo Insitut hat im Sommer 1991 eine Umfrage bei westdeutschen Kommunen zu den Herstellungskosten- und Folgelasten kommunaler Investitionen durchgeführt.Der Aufsatz faßt die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Studie zusammen: Herstellungs- und Folgelasten eines Kindergartens, einer Turn- und...

This report focuses on Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency for Turkey. Turkey has continued to make progress toward meeting the requirements of the fiscal transparency code, in particular through a substantial overhaul of the legal system. The adoption of the Public...

This report summarizes the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It provides an assessment of fiscal transparency practices in the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia in relation to the requirements of the IMF Code of Good...

This report provides an assessment of fiscal transparency practices in Greece in relation to the requirements of the IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency. The assessment reveals that Greece has made progress, in recent years, in meeting the requirements of the fiscal transparency...

This report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency Module on Ghana highlights a fiscal transparency module. Ghana meets the standards of the fiscal transparency code in several areas. In spite of the progress, the transparency of fiscal activities still falls short of...