Medium Term Fiscal Frameworks (MTFs) have become one of the most popular reforms to the budgetary process in Latin America during the last decade, and introducing MTFs seemed to be the magic solution for most fiscal ailments. Nonetheless, there has been no comprehensive evaluation of their...

The short note on the 2019 President's Budget attempts to assess the proposed shift from obligation-based to cash-based budgeting and its implications on the 2019 proposed national budget. In the process, it aims to inform policy deliberations on Senate Bill 1761 (formerly Senate Bill 1450),...

National fiscal frameworks (NFFs) represent a set of domestic arrangements to enhance the predictability and transparency of public finances. This chapter looks into a specific aspect of institutional convergence: the development of NFFs in the EU-11 countries following their EU accession. The...

Der <Schuldenmonitor> der Bertelsmann Stiftung prophezeit es bereits seit drei Jahren: Die Bundesländer erwartet ein beträchtlicher Konsolidierungsbedarf. Aber welche Möglichkeiten stehen für eine solche Konsolidierung offen? Wie stellen sich die Konsolidierungsanstrengungen im Vergleich dar? Welche...</schuldenmonitor>