India’s Experience with Fiscal Rules: An Evaluation and The Way Forward

August 1, 2009

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Alejandro Simone, and Petia Topalova. India’s Experience with Fiscal Rules: An Evaluation and The Way Forward, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed September 26, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines India's experience with fiscal rules with a view to inform the design of a possible successor fiscal framework to the FRBMA. Among several proposals to strengthen the FRBMA, a framework that focuses medium-term fiscal policy on debt sustainability by the use of a medium term debt target, and annual nominal expenditure growth rules is proposed. This approach tackles the deficit bias at its core and enables countercyclical fiscal policy through automatic stabilizers. Numerical targets should be supported by structural reform measures for both revenues and expenditures, while the coverage of the fiscal rules should be expanded.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Public debt

Keywords: Borrowing regime, Country, Deficit, Government, Government finances, Includes, State government, WP

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40
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Working Paper No. 2009/175
Stock No:

WPIEA2009175
ISBN:

9781451873221
ISSN:

1018-5941

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