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Fiscal Reforms and Deficits in Tanzania: An Exploratory Review
This study provides an exploratory review of the trends, policy reforms, and determinants of fiscal deficits in Tanzania during the period 1980-2017.
Mawejje Joseph, Odhiambo Nicholas M.
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Exploring asymmetric causality between fiscal deficit and poverty reduction in Nigeria [PDF]
PurposeThis study aims to examine asymmetric causality between fiscal deficits and poverty reduction in Nigeria for the period 1981–2023.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts Hatemi-J data decomposition procedures, the asymmetric causality ...
Clement Olalekan Olaniyi +1 more
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Macroeconomic theory postulates that fiscal deficits cause inflation. Yet empirical research has had limited success in uncovering this relationship. This paper reexamines the issue in light of broader data and a new modeling approach that incorporates two key features of the theory. Unlike previous studies, we model inflation as nonlinearly related to
Luis Catão, Marco Terrones
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Fiscal Deficits and Current Account Deficits
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Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton
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Fiscal deficit in sub-saharan Africa: A new intuition from the institution and political drivers.
Motivated by the growing fiscal deficits in sub-Saharan Africa, this study examines fiscal deficit's economic, political, and institutional drivers using a panel of twenty-three sub-Saharan African countries. Panel spatial consistent correlation, dynamic
Ezekiel Olamide Abanikanda +2 more
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Expansionary Fiscal Shocks and the Trade Deficit [PDF]
In this paper, we use an open economy DGE model (SIGMA) to assess the quantitative effects of fiscal shocks on the trade balance in the United States. We examine the effects of two alternative fiscal shocks: a rise in government consumption, and a reduction in the labor income tax rate.
Christopher J. Erceg +2 more
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Fiscal decentralization and deficits: International evidence [PDF]
Abstract This paper investigates macroeconomic effects of fiscal decentralization, which has been a neglected area of research. Panel evidence for 16 countries over 1980–1998 indicates that expenditure and revenue decentralization reduce budget deficits.
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Fiscal deficits, international trade and welfare [PDF]
Abstract The effects of fiscal deficits on welfare, interest rates and the balance of payments are examined in an open-economy, overlapping-generations model. A deficit reduces welfare of the current old and the domestic unborn. The foreign unborn gain while the current foreign young may gain or lose.
Fried, Joel, Howitt, Peter
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Unemployment, total factor productivity, budget deficit and wage share in South Africa
Purpose ― The paper investigated the effect of the interaction of fiscal deficits and total factor productivity (TFP) and fiscal deficits and the wage share on unemployment.
Juniours Marire
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A Reformist Thought to Fiscal Reform and Budget Management
The Fiscal Reform and Budget Management (FRBM) Act 2003 (and its subsequent amendments) and similar fiscal responsibility laws were legislated to rein in fiscal deficits often driven by factors other than economic imperative.
Anshuman Kamila +2 more
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