How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit

September 15, 1991

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How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

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 macroeconomy. This volume, edited by Mario I. Blejer and Adrienne Cheasty, is organized around four issues: the adequacy of summary measures of the fiscal deficit, conventional and adjusted deficits, coverage (size) of the public sector, and the public sector's intertemporal budget constraint.

Subject: Arrears, Economic sectors, Expenditure, External debt, Fiscal policy, Government debt management, Public financial management (PFM), Public sector

Keywords: Africa, Arrears, Asia and Pacific, Asset sale, BOOK, Caribbean, Deficit, Deficit measure, Europe, Fiscal deficit, Global, Government, Government activity, Government balance-sheet approach, Government debt management, Public sector, Rate of inflation, West Africa, Western Hemisphere

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