Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation We study the supply of fiscal ideas leveraging thousands of electoral platforms from 65 countries in the Manifesto Project ...

In recent years, as the US economy has slowly recovered from the Great Recession, a puzzle has emerged: Where is the inflation? Despite a historically low unemployment rate, and interest rates that ...

Different measures and methodologies can sometimes lead to conflicting conclusions about how tax dollars are flowing through the broader macroeconomic landscape. U.S. fiscal policy over the last three ...

This year’s conference brought together six research papers that explore issues related to fiscal and monetary policy and their interaction. The papers ranged from a theoretical analysis of the design ...

Fiscal policy is a tool used by governments to regulate economic activities in their country. It is one of the two main categories of economic policy, along with monetary policy. The main goal of ...

New Mexico’s ‘Free’ Child Care an Attempt to Cover for Past Failures Don’t Cry for Argentina A Case Study in Economic Self-Harm While federal politicians continue to tax and spend unabated, many ...

The fiscal policies of the Trump administration added twice the amount to the national deficit as have President Biden’s, a new analysis has found. Trump’s administration borrowed $8.4 trillion during ...

The federal government spends an enormous amount of money. Measured as a share of national economic output, budgetary outlays are near a peacetime high, consuming almost 21 percent of gross domestic ...

This Economic Letter summarizes the presentations at a symposium held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on May 9, 2008, sponsored by the Bank’s Center for the Study of Innovation and ...

Each year, families and individuals pay taxes to the government and receive back a wide variety of services and benefits. When the benefits and services received by one group exceed the taxes paid, a ...

Fiscal policy refers to taxing and spending policies of governments, often with a specific focus on budgeting and the effect of taxing and spending on the broader economy. Fiscal policy is one of, if ...

Fiscal policy is central to development. It can support macroeconomic stability, foster growth, and help reduce poverty. Taxes fund essential services, while public spending builds human capital and ...