Showing posts with label Fiscal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiscal. Show all posts
Monday, August 11, 2008

Assorted

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A Tale of Two Charts More Reasons Not To Take The Candidates' Budget Proposals Too Seriously Make Diplomacy, Not War Anne-Marie Slaughte...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Assorted

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The cost of the prevailing policy framework in finance A graphical playground Feldstein's Heresy on Fiscal Policy? Summers on economic d...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Macro-Modelling for Poor Countries- case of Mali

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Going over Mali's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper 's I came over the following under 'Capacity building in macro-economic model...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Austerity for Saudi Kings- can it work?

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Saudi Arabia’s central bank governor on Tuesday called on the government to fight inflation by curbing public expenditure, warning that econ...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Assorted on Government Budgets

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Earmarks 101 Iris Lav, tax policy specialist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Washi...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

World Bank writer on IMF blog

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Minding the Gaps: Integrating Poverty Reduction Strategies and Budgets for Domestic Accountability
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Assorted Pakistan

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Demand Analysis For Tax Reform In Pakistan Angus Deaton and F. Grimard Abstract: Pakistan, like many LDCs, derives most of government revenu...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Assorted on Fiscal

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The Fiscal Implications of Climate Change A New Fiscal Rule: Should Israel go Swiss? Conditional cash transfers in education : design featur...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Optimal Disaster Insurance

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On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation by Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew F. Haughwout Abstract: Recent experience wit...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Making Indian Bureaucrats happy

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India's Pay Commission Report is out ; With poll calculations dominating the UPA government’s agenda, the more than four million-strong ...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Econ Talks

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" Health Care: Capturing the Opportunity in the Nation's Core Fiscal Challenge " Peter Orszag , Director, U.S. Congressional B...

For soft landing try fiscal

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Achieving a Soft Landing: The Role of Fiscal Policy Summary: This paper utilizes an open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Paul Volcker the practical monetarist

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FT coverage of the Volcker interview; He told CBS Charlie Rose show: “We have seen the Federal Reserve take more extreme measures in some r...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Interesting Paper

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Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Sudden Stop: Is Tighter Brighter? In this paper we ask whether tighter monetary and fiscal policies are th...

Take Credit, Avoid Blame- the politics of budget

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A good background for students of government budgeting- see how law makers think of the Nations priorities. U.S. House of Representative...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Quote of the Day

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" The Iraqis have a budget surplus ," said U.S. Comptroller General David Walker . " We have a huge budget deficit. . . . One...

The Challenges to Mauritius

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According to IMF ; "The economic recovery is accelerating with strong growth in tourism, construction, finance, and services. Foreign i...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Assorted

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"Fisking" Modern Monetarism Tabulating the Credit Crunch's Effects: One Educated Guess UK vs US taxes Did you say “decoupling”...
Monday, March 3, 2008

McCainomics

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McCain's Economy Platform: Big Tax Cuts, With Caveats
Sunday, March 2, 2008

More on India's budget

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Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's budget speech on Friday once again reflected the government's mounting concern that a vas...