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How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit : analytical and methodological issues /

Fiscal policy seeks to equilibrate the public sector's financing needs with the private sector's demand for investment and a sustainable balance of payments. Correct measurement of the public sector's net use of resources is therefore an important prerequisite for managing the macroec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bléjer, Mario I., Cheasty, A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: International Monetary Fund 1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Overview
  • 1. Measuring the Fiscal Deficit: Overview of the Issues
  • Part II. The Adequacy of Summary Measures of the Fiscal Deficit
  • 2. Fiscal Deficit Measurement
  • Basic Issues
  • 3. Are All Summary Indicators of the Stance of Fiscal Policy Misleading?
  • 4. Measurement of Fiscal Performance in IMF-Supported Programs: Some Methodological Issues
  • 5. Fiscal Impulse Measures and Their Fiscal Impact
  • Part III. Conventional and Adjusted Fiscal Deficits
  • 6. The Cash Deficit: Rationale and Limitations.
  • 7. Government Arrears in Fiscal Adjustment Programs
  • 8. Credit Subsidies in Budgetary Lending: Computation, Effects, and Fiscal Implications
  • 9. Effects of Inflation on Measurement of Fiscal Deficits: Conventional Versus Operational Measures
  • Part IV. Coverage of the Public Sector
  • 10. Toward Defining and Measuring the Fiscal Impact of Public Enterprises
  • 11. Amalgamating Central Bank and Fiscal Deficits
  • 12. Impact of Public Financial Institutions on Fiscal Stance
  • Part V. The Public Sector's Intertemporal Budget Constraint.
  • 13. The Deficit as an Indicator of Government Solvency: Changes in Public Sector Net Worth
  • 14. Measurement of the Public Sector Deficit and Its Implications for Policy Evaluation and Design
  • 15. Budgetary Impact of Privatization
  • 16. Government Contingent Liabilities and Measurement of Fiscal Impact.