debt sustainability over the next decade, taking into account alternative recovery scenarios and associated fiscal … persistent economic effects of the pandemic, risks to the Dutch fiscal and debt sustainability would remain contained …Although the Netherlands entered the so-called Great Lockdown with a strong fiscal position, the Dutch fiscal balance …

This paper investigates the heterogenous effects of budget balance rules on fiscal policy in a large sample of …-in-Differences Method. Our results indicate that countries with a budget balance rule improve their fiscal balance on average by around 3 … have had large deficits in the absence of the fiscal rule exhibit positive treatment effects, thus reducing their budget …

improving gender equality. Gender budgeting is ideally a fiscal innovation that translates gender-related goals into budgetary …

This paper discusses the short- and medium-term fiscal implications of government wage bill spending. Working with a … behavior of revenues, non wage expenditures, and the overall fiscal balance in response to changes in the wage bill. We show … that the interaction between wage bill changes and these three fiscal items is alike andvaries overtime. Higher wage bill …

factor that hampers fiscal discipline. Using a panel dataset, we find that a larger presence of state-owned banks in the … banking system is associated with more credit to the public sector, larger fiscal deficits, higher public debt ratios, and the … carefully assessed in any strategy to pursue fiscal discipline …

'emerging' model of organizational design in which there is greater openness and transparency, more flexible management …

Debt relief and the scaling up of aid to low-income countries should allow for greater fiscal space for expenditure … programs to create long-term growth and lower poverty rates. But designing a suitable medium-term fiscal framework that fosters … a sustainable delivery of better public services and infrastructure while maintaining a credible commitment to fiscal …

This paper examines the rationale for the imposition of fiscal rules as a way to reduce budgetary imbalances. It … presents theoretical arguments for the existence of a quot;fiscal deficit biasquot; and the empirical evidence on the economic … legal constraints on the level of key fiscal variables, and of reforms in budgetary procedures in enhancing fiscal …