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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451561903321

Titolo

How to measure the fiscal deficit : analytical and methodological issues / / edited by Mario I. Blejer and Adrienne Cheasty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : International Monetary Fund, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-4623-0382-X

1-4552-9315-6

1-283-53461-4

9786613847065

1-4552-4666-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BléjerMario I

CheastyA

Disciplina

339.5/09172/4

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Developing countries

Budget deficits - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""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""