Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,806
Cover Image
The benefits of fiscal consolidation in uncharted waters
Rother, Philipp; Schuknecht, Ludger; Stark, Jürgen - 2010
unsustainable public debt dynamics and enormous contingent liabilities across sectors and countries coinciding with strong, non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606273
Cover Image
Fiscal policy options in light of recent IMF research
Allen, Mark Le Gros - 2011
The financial crisis and recession have left a legacy of unusually large fiscal deficits and growing sovereign debt …. Fiscal space is defined as the room the government has to borrow before it hits a debt limit, the level of debt to GDP at … which the debt dynamics become unstable, unless the government undertakes exceptional fiscal action. The debt limit is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430862
Cover Image
Fiscal policy in a growth framework
Gemmell, Norman - 2001
This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low-income countries and compares the evidence for low-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279253
Cover Image
Revenue and expenditure nexus: A case study of ECOWAS
Magazzino, Cosimo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-13, pp. 1-27
show mixed results for WAEMU countries, while for four out of six WAMZ countries (Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311847
Cover Image
Expenditure reform in industrialised countries: a case study approach
Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Heipertz, Martin; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2006
This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604680
Cover Image
Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries with an Application to Ecuador
Alvarado, Carlos Díaz; Izquierdo, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004
This paper surveys the recent literature on fiscal sustainability, with particular emphasis on emerging market countries. It discusses the main elements that differentiate emerging market countries from industrial countries and then discusses how probabilistic models can help to evaluate fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327194
Cover Image
Sustainability of Portuguese fiscal policy in historical perspective
Marinheiro, Carlos Jose Fonseca - 2005
-2003 period is not maintained for the more recent 1975-2003 period, which is characterised by the largest GDP deficit ratios of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275771
Cover Image
Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kühnel, Johanna - 2008
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422176
Cover Image
Productive government expenditure and economic growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2008
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264372
Cover Image
Whither public interest: The case of Greece's public finances
Moutos, Thomas; Tsitsikas, Christos - 2010
During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270514