The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of fiscal policies and PFM reforms in 7 countries in the Western Balkans and 12 countries in the CIS, including major macroeconomic and poverty trends, fiscal policy, the size and role of the public sector, public expenditure management and its...

An assessment is presented of whether Greece's current plight is a harbinger of similar adverse conditions likely to directly impact the United States in the intermediate- to long-term future.Long-term deficits projected for 2020 and beyond, under the assumption that the economy is in full...

This paper examines empirically how transparency of the budget process affects fiscal rules and incentives for fiscal gimmickry or creative accounting in the European Union. Using stock-flow adjustment data for EU countries from 1990-2007, we show that pressure from a deficit limit rule as in...

In the first three months of 2022, federal budget revenues increased by 4.2 p.p. of GDP compared to the same period of the previous year due to oil and gas revenues, reaching 31.2% of the projected annual volume. A moderate increase in federal budget expenditures by 1.5 p.p. of GDP in the first...

At the end of the first seven months of 2022, growth in revenues of the consolidated budgets of the RF regions was outpacing the growth in budget expenditures and the inflation rate, indicating that regions maintained a sufficient level of financial sustainability. As for the structure of...

The federal budget for 9 months of 2022 was executed with a surplus of Rb 54.7 bn. The dynamics of revenues is slowing down, with the growth of rental revenues by 1.4 p.p. against the same period of the previous year and does not compensate for the fall of non-oil and gas revenues by 2.0 p.p. of...

According to the results of Q3 2022, total revenues of consolidated budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation amounted to Rb14.06 trillion, which is by 17.9% higher than the value of this indicator for the same period in 2021 and exceeds the annual inflation rate. These figures have been...

According to the results of Q3 2022, total revenues of consolidated budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation amounted to Rb14.06 trillion, which is by 17.9% higher than the value of this indicator for the same period in 2021 and exceeds the annual inflation rate. These figures have been...

The dynamics of the main parameters of the federal budget in January-September 2019 compared to the same period of the previous year showed that: • there was a stabilization of revenues at the level of 18.8 p.p. of GDP; having said that, the reduction in the level of oil and gas revenues was...

Macroeconomic and geopolitical atmosphere of 2022 did not have a significant negative impact on the federal budget. In particular, the federal budget deficit at 2022 year-end did not exceed 2.2% of GDP amid the forced increase in government spending, which is almost twice lower than the crisis...