"Of all economic recessions experienced by the United States in the postwar period, the Great Recession that began in 2008 was the deepest, longest, and most destructive. Nevada was among the hardest hit states, its people reeling from the aftereffects, and the state government also experiencing...

At the request of the Government of Liberia (GoL), the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) led an external assessment of the central government’s public financial management (PFM) systems based on the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) methodology. The assessment was...

The CIS-7 Initiative was launched in 2002 and endorsed by ministers from the CIS-7 and donor countries, with the objective of promoting poverty reduction, economic growth, and debt sustainability among the seven poorest countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This volume draws...

In modernen Wohlfahrtsstaaten wird das Marktgeschehen in starkem Maße durch die Politik beeinflusst. Indem der Staat Steuern einhebt und Staatsausgaben tätigt, beeinflusst er sowohl die Struktur und das Niveau der Produktion als auch die Einkommensverteilung und damit die Verteilung der...