Fiscal Monitor, April 2018: Capitalizing on Good Times

April 18, 2018

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Fiscal Monitor, April 2018: Capitalizing on Good Times, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This report discusses fiscal trends in policies aimed at reducing fiscal vulnerabilities and boosting medium-term growth, recent fiscal developments and the fiscal outlook in advanced economies, emerging markets, and low-income developing countries; recent trends in government debt and analysis of changes in fiscal balances, revenue, and spending; potential fiscal risks; and growth from the fiscal policies. It also describes how digitalization can help governments improve implementation of current policy and widen the range of policy options, and opportunities and risks for fiscal policy, including improvements in policy implementation, the design of future policy, and how digitalization can create opportunities for fraud and increase government vulnerabilities.

Subject: Digitalization, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Public debt, Revenue administration, Technology

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Caribbean, Commodity exporter, Country abbreviation, Debt, Digitalization, Financial crisis, Fiscal stance, FM, Global, Government payment, Middle East, Middle-income economy, North Africa, Pricing system, Reform agenda, Statistics manual, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tax authorities, Term id, Trade gap, Value-added tax

Publication Details

Pages:

156
Volume:

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Series:

Fiscal Monitor No. 2018/001
Stock No:

FMOEA2018001
ISBN:

9781484333952
ISSN:

2219-276X

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