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The paper surveys the role of financial markets and fiscal institutions in the transformation process going on in Eastern and Central Europe. It highlights (a) the need to create some sort of “social ecological balance” necessary for the working of a modern market economy; (b) the need to...
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, across, and beyond the budget cycle. This includes components such as fiscal transparency and external oversight, and …
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entailed a significant slippage from the authorities’ target and exposed vulnerabilities in the budget framework. Core … fluctuations on the budget. In particular, they adopted a mechanism to index the prices of most subsidized energy products to …
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The paper analyzes the bearing of Islamic teachings on the conduct of fiscal policy. It is shown that Islamic teachings do not prescribe any rigid system of public finance. The major emphasis is on the state’s responsibility to assure at least a basic minimum standard of living for all...
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The recent slowdown in the U.S. economy has led to state and local government tax increases and expenditure cuts that have lowered aggregate demand, in contrast to earlier downturns when the sector provided significant automatic stabilizers. Several explanations for this change are examined,...
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Die Konsolidierung der öffentlichen Finanzen ist für Regierungen eine stete Herausforderung. Wirtschaftskrisen belasten die Haushalte in regelmäßigen Zyklen und Politiker schrecken aus Angst vor elektoraler Bestrafung vor Steuererhöhungen und Ausgabenkürzungen zurück. Vor diesem...
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Dieses Buch ist eine Abrechnung mit der ungerechten finanziellen Lastenverteilung innerhalb der EU seit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung. Von da an hat Deutschland täglich im Durchschnitt 54 Millionen Euro als Beitrag zum EU-Haushalt nach Brüssel transferiert – und es kann deshalb mit Recht...
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