Fiscal Policy and Long-Run Growth

Fiscal Policy and Long-Run Growth
ISBN-10
1451854129
ISBN-13
9781451854121
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
36
Language
English
Published
1996-10-01
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Authors
Mr.Vito Tanzi, Mr.Howell H. Zee

Description

This paper discusses in a systematic and comprehensive way the existing literature on the relationship between the growth of countries’ economies and various public finance instruments, such as tax policy, expenditure policy, and overall budgetary policy, from the perspectives of allocative efficiency, macroeconomic stability, and income distribution. It reviews both the conceptual linkages between each of the instruments and growth and the empirical evidence on such relationships. It broadly concludes that fiscal policy could play a fundamental role in affecting the long-run growth performance of countries.

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