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  2. Transfer payment - Wikipedia

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    Transfer payments to (persons) as a percent of federal revenue in the United States Transfer payments to (persons + business) in the United States. In macroeconomics and finance, a transfer payment (also called a government transfer or simply fiscal transfer) is a redistribution of income and wealth by means of the government making a payment, without goods or services being received in return ...

  3. Transfer payments multiplier - Wikipedia

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    In Keynesian economics, the transfer payments multiplier (or transfer payment multiplier) is the multiplier by which aggregate demand will increase when there is an increase in transfer payments (e.g., welfare spending, unemployment payments). [1] Transfer payments are not in the same theoretical category as government spending on goods and ...

  4. Mandatory spending - Wikipedia

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    Transfer payments to (persons) as a percent of Federal revenue in the United States Transfer payments to (persons + business) in the United States. The United States federal budget is divided into three categories: mandatory spending, discretionary spending, and interest on debt.

  5. Fiscal federalism - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is the study of how competencies (expenditure side) and fiscal instruments (revenue side) are allocated across different (vertical) layers of the administration. An important part of its subject matter is the system of transfer payments or grants by which a central government shares its revenues with lower levels of government.

  6. Cash transfer - Wikipedia

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    Cash transfer programmes in developing countries are constrained by three factors: financial resources, institutional capacity and ideology. [3] Governments in poorer countries tend to have restricted financial resources, and are therefore limited in the amount they can invest both directly in cash transfers and in measures to ensure that such programmes are effective. [3]

  7. Automatic stabilizer - Wikipedia

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    Here we have an economy with zero marginal taxes and zero transfer payments. If these figures were substituted into the multiplier formula, the resulting figure would be 2.5 . This figure would give us the instance where a (for instance) $1 billion change in expenditure would lead to a $2.5 billion change in equilibrium real GDP.

  8. Balance of payments - Wikipedia

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    Country foreign exchange reserves minus external debt. In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a quarter or a year) and the outflow of money to the rest of the world.

  9. Current account (balance of payments) - Wikipedia

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    The balance of payments (BOP) is the record of a country's monetary transactions with the rest of the world. Transactions are either marked as a credit or a debit. Within the BOP there are three separate categories under which different transactions are categorized: the current account, the capital account and the financial account.