Indonesia's fiscal position is generally sound and policy making prudent. However, the country still faces important challenges in terms of economic and social development. Infrastructure, education, health and social security are all spending areas that the government is trying to improve...

Eckhard Wurzel, OECD, sieht im starken Rückgang der Bevölkerung im erwerbsfähigen Alter, in den Verschiebungen in der Altersstruktur und in den sich verstärkenden regionalen Ungleichgewichten der Bevölkerungsentwicklung eine neue große Herausforderung für die Wirtschafts- und...

Stéphanie Guichard, Michael Kennedy, Eckhard Wurzel and Christophe André examine the circumstances most commonly related to successful fiscal consolidation. Data are drawn from a dataset covering twenty-four OECD countries since 1978. Based on improvement in the cyclically-adjusted primary...