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Fiscal Politics

By Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados

April 7, 2017

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Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, and Carlos Mulas-Granados. Fiscal Politics, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

Two main themes of the book are that (1) politics can distort optimal fiscal policy through elections and through political fragmentation, and (2) rules and institutions can attenuate the negative effects of this dynamic. The book has three parts: part 1 (9 chapters) outlines the problems; part 2 (6 chapters) outlines how institutions and fiscal rules can offer solutions; and part 3 (4 chapters) discusses how multilevel governance frameworks can help.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Public debt, Revenue administration

Keywords: Africa, BOOK, Caribbean, Center, Energy subsidy, Europe, Expenditure rule, Fiscal rules, Global, Government, Incumbent government, Middle East, Promise gap, Revenue conditionality, Sub-Saharan Africa, Wage bill

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