We analyze dynamic of budget receipts, federal budget expenditures and assets in the National Wealth Fund for January-April 2020. Over the period, the federal budget was executed with a surplus, however one should remember that oil and gas revenues reflect the changes on the market the same...

We review the application of cyclically balanced budget rules in Switzerland and Chile. The budgets of these countries, drawn up based on the cyclical balance rule, have improved their primary indicators of fiscal sustainability (the level of public debt, primary surplus)

As demonstrated by the period-end results of H1 2017, the dynamic displayed by the main parameters of the federal budget points to revenue growth by 1.8 p.p. of GDP and expenditure decline by 0.8 p.p. of GDP relative to the corresponding period of the previous year. The upshot has been a...

The key parameters of the federal budget showed faster growth of revenues over expenditures at the end of Q1 2017 compared with Q1 2016. Thus revenues increased by 2.7 p.p. of GDP as budget expenditures gained 0.8 p.p. of GDP. As a result, the budget deficit was curtailed to 1.4% of GDP and the...

According to the data released by the Federal Treasury, at month-end January 2016 the federal budget revenue came to 20.6% of GDP down 5.3 p.p. of GDP against the first month of the previous year. In January 2016 against January 2015, contraction of the federal budget expenditure constituted...