The year 2017 saw some notable changes in the main parameters of the execution of the general government budget of the Russian Federation: the budgetary system's revenue gained nearly 1 percentage point of GDP, while expenditure, on the contrary, lost 1.2 percentage points of GDP. Thus, the...

The budget system revenues of the Russian Federation in 2020 shrank by Rb3.4 trillion in real terms compared to the previous year, or by 8.6% at constant prices (Table 6) on the back of reduced oil and gas revenues. For this reason, the proportion of oil and gas revenues in the total budget...

In 2018, fiscal revenues of the enlarged government (hereinafter BEG) according to the preliminary data released by the Federal Treasury exceeded the volumes seen in the previous year by 1.9 percentage points of GDP, or by RUB 5,870 billion in absolute terms. At the same time, 75 percent of the...

In 2019, revenues of the budgetary system of Russia according to the fresher data released by the Ministry of Finance of Russia in shares of GDP against the previous year remained flat amounting to 35.8 percent of GDP (Table 7), meanwhile in absolute terms they have increased by RUB 1,860...

In 2016, fiscal revenues of the enlarged government surpassed 2015 volumes both in absolute terms (by RUB 1,253bn) and in relative terms by 0.5 percentage point of GDP (see Table 6). Expenditures of the enlarged government went up by 0.8 percentage point of GDP and by RUB 1,581bn in absolute...

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)

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...

In 2022, the nominal growth of all the main parameters of the enlarged government budget (hereinafter — EGB) led to their dynamics in shares of GDP in relation to the previous year to have a multidirectional nature: revenues decreased by 0.6 p.p. of GDP to its lowest level in recent years of...