We use a dynamic small open economy model to explore the macroeconomic impact of alternative public investment scaling-up scenarios, analyzing how improving the efficiency of capital spending and of tax revenue collection affect growth and debt sustainability for three fast-growing Southeast...

The heightened interest of African countries to access international capital markets has put public debt sustainability once again high on the continent's policy agenda. Applying the ‘stabilizing primary balance approach' to sustainability shows that the primary balances exceeded those...

The paper investigated the significance of fiscal rules and fiscal institutions, with the objective of achieving fiscal sustainability and growth in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently faced with unsustainable expenditures which have resulted in fiscal macroeconomic imbalances. To achieve the study...

In the past several years, central banks globally have begun to consider whether, and to what extent, questions of climate change and sustainability intersect with their legislative mandates. The issues are not straightforward nor is there a one-size-fits-all approach. A range of important...

ECB President Christine Lagarde and others have suggested that climate change creates risks for price stability and for the viability of counterparties to central bank interventions and therefore monetary policy should contribute to fighting climate change. However, pursuit of this new objective...

We use a panel of 21 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009 to investigate the effects of different fiscal adjustment strategies on long-term interest rates - a key fiscal indicator reflecting the costs of government debt service. A government confronted with high deficits and rising debt will sooner...