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This paper describes the growth of the Singapore Government Securities (SGS) market. It elaborates on the balanced budget policy of the Singapore government, explains how SGS are issued unrelated to fiscal needs and describes how a liquid SGS market is used to establish a robust government yield...
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Many proponents of conservative fiscal policies talk of the budget deficit as being a matter of intergenerational … equality. However, this paper shows the younger generations (and those yet to be born) will contribute more to the deficit than … the driving force behind the deficit is our broken health care system and that this should be the focus of the debate. …
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their home. However,concerns over the deficit threaten to derail efforts to turn around the economy and spur employment …. This report attempts to correct many of the misperceptions about the deficit that have brought the issue to the center of … downturn, the tactics of the deficit hawks distract the public and policy makers from the policies necessary to bring the …
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Recently governments, economists, and international financial institutions have been debating the merits of further fiscal stimulus to combat the Great Recession versus fiscal austerity or “adjustment” – that is, higher taxes and/or lower government spending – to combat budget deficits....
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deficit and national debt. This discussion is unfortunate both because there is no reason for people to be concerned about the … deficit at present, and more importantly, because it discourages action on the unemployment crisis that is devastating the …
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Based on Austria's fiscal stance in 1995, we compute the generational accounts for currently living as well as future generations. The results reveal the existence of an enormous intergenerational imbalance in favor of currently living generations. Total public sector liabilities may be more...
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To enrich the debate about the fiscal effectiveness of sovereign wealth funds, this paper explores the effect of sovereign wealth funds (more precisely sovereign oil funds, SOFs) on the government spending in real term and as a share of GDP. First, we evaluate the relationship between the...
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Based on Austria's fiscal stance in 1995, we compute the generational accounts for currently living as well as future generations. The results reveal the existence of an enormous intergenerational imbalance in favor of currently living generations. Total public sector liabilities may be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714283
Rising public debt has been widespread in democratic-capitalist political economies since the 1970s, generally accompanied among other things by weak economic growth, rising unemployment, increasing inequality, growing tax resistance, and declining political participation. Following an initial...
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