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Fiscal space is the flexibility of a government in its spending choices, and, more generally, to the financial well-being of a government. [1] Peter Heller (2005) defined it “as room in a government’s budget that allows it to provide resources for a desired purpose without jeopardizing the sustainability of its financial position or the stability of the economy.” [2]
Neutral fiscal policy is usually undertaken when an economy is in neither a recession nor an expansion. The amount of government deficit spending (the excess not financed by tax revenue ) is roughly the same as it has been on average over time, so no changes to it are occurring that would have an effect on the level of economic activity .
The government forms a budget for the new fiscal year by taking the budget from the previous fiscal year as a base and makes only small changes to it. Top-down approach: The central financial authority (e.g. the Ministry of finance) sets boundaries to the budget and the government completes it. This approach originated in the 1990s as an ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... fiscal federalism is concerned with "understanding ... An important part of its subject matter is the system ...
The “forward estimates” system evolved in Australia from the late 1970s through the 1980s, [1] and is used at both the Federal and State levels. The forward estimates provide a mechanism for discipline within the budgeting process that enables a greater focus on strategic policy issues, [ 1 ] and provide a strategic framework for budgetary ...
Macroeconomic data to support public finance economics are generally referred to as fiscal or government finance statistics (GFS). The Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 (GFSM 2001) is the internationally accepted methodology for compiling fiscal data.
Fiscal sustainability, or public finance sustainability, is the ability of a government to sustain its current spending, tax and other policies in the long run without threatening government solvency or defaulting on some of its liabilities or promised expenditures. There is no consensus among economists on a precise operational definition for ...
Fiscal agent, a proxy that manages fiscal matters on behalf of another party; Fiscal illusion, a public choice theory of government expenditure; Fiscal space, the flexibility of a government in its spending choices; Fiscal sponsorship, when non-profit organizations offer their legal and tax-exempt status to groups