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Fiscal Adjustment In IMF-Supported Programs
White Papers The IMF has been criticized in various quarters for adopting a standard "one-size-fits-all" approach to determining the desired level of fiscal adjustment without taking into account country-specific constraints and circumstances.
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
Fiscal Decentralisation And Economic Growth: Is There Really A Link?
White Papers This paper reviews these studies, summarises their major findings, examines the covered time horizon and region, compares the applied theoretical framework and the chosen empirical methodology, evaluates the chosen indicators for fiscal...
[June 24, 2005, 0:00]
Intuit Says Fiscal 2000 On Track
News Intuit announced on Thursday that it was on track to meet its fiscal 2000 revenue and operating income goals. The company also said it expects fiscal 2001 pro forma revenue and operating income to grow by more than 20 percent, and that its Internet...
[March 16, 2000, 14:32]
Public Finance And Vertical Fiscal Imbalance
White Papers The difference between the relative revenue and spending responsibilities of the Commonwealth and States is known as vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI). A feature of Australia's federal system is that the States have relatively large constitutionally...
[June 17, 2005, 0:00]
Forecasting Exogenous Fiscal Variables In The United States
White Papers Also, the paper discusses forecasting policy changes in the context of extending recent empirical work of Alan Auerbach (2002, 2003) on fiscal reaction functions. This paper provides an introduction to the practice of forecasting "exogenous...
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Another State Fiscal Crisis: Is There A Better Way?
White Papers This paper describes the state fiscal problem and suggests some solutions. The federal government could provide immediate fiscal relief to the states, and adopt a longer run program to mitigate cyclical swings in the state revenues.
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
Balances Of Budget Authority: Budget For Fiscal Year 2006
White Papers Not all budget authority enacted for a fiscal year results in obligations and outlays in the same year. Government agencies are permitted to enter into obligations that result in immediate or future outlays only when they have been granted...
[May 27, 2005, 0:00]
Building Local Government Enterprise GIS In A Limited Fiscal Environment
White Papers Enterprise GIS Administration solutions to beating the all too common challenge of development of an enterprise GIS from a decentralized and distributed department based GIS with limited impact to budgets due to current depleted fiscal environment.
[August 23, 2005, 0:00]
Signaling Fiscal Regime Sustainability
White Papers In our model, dependable - but not fully credible - governments have an incentive to tighten the fiscal regime when the signaling effect on credit ratings is larger (that is, when a sufficiently large stock of debt has been accumulated).
[September 19, 2003, 0:00]
Federal Reserve Banks As Fiscal Agents And Depositories Of The United States In A Changing Financial Environment
White Papers Fiscal agent services have changed considerably since the Treasury first designated the Banks as depositories and fiscal agents in 1915 and 1916. As the financial services industry has grown, the needs of the government have also changed.
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Aging: Some Pleasant Fiscal Arithmetic
White Papers Projections of age-related public expenditure growth have raised widespread concerns about fiscal sustainability. This paper examines how total expenditure would develop under four policy rules on public expenditure growth.
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
Improving Fiscal Policy In The EU: The Case For Independent Forecasts
White Papers This forecast bias negatively affects the fiscal policy-making process. To remedy this bias in the present process of fiscal policymaking, this paper suggests the establishment of an independent forecasting authority, i.e.independent of the...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Deficit Limits, Budget Rules, And Fiscal Policy
White Papers The paper presents a simple model for discussing the effects of deficit limits and budget rules on fiscal policy. As a result, fiscal "reaction functions" are not monotonically related to the state of the economy.
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
Closing The Books On The 2004 Fiscal Year
White Papers Wrapping up the 2004 fiscal year and preparing for tax season can be overwhelming. However, being armed with the right financial software provider and support team can make year-end processes seem much less daunting.
[October 18, 2005, 0:00]
SAS Analyzes Inmate Data Alongside Fiscal And HR Data
White Papers Hoping to increase system efficiencies and improve prisoner success rates, many state and county corrections systems provide education, life and work skills, and alcohol and drug treatment programs. But oftentimes, those who are footing the bill...
[December 26, 2006, 23:00]
U.S. Customs Service Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2000 - 2005
White Papers For nearly 125 years, Customs funded virtually the entire government, and paid for the nation's early growth and infrastructure. Today, Customs is still a sizeable source of revenue for the Federal government, but along with the growth of our...
[January 26, 2005, 23:00]
City Of Arvada Improves Fiscal Responsibility With Up-to-Date Information Systems
White Papers Its population of more than 104,000 makes Arvada the sixth largest city in Colorado. As the twentieth century drew to a close, the thriving Denver suburb faced a potential information systems failure due to its patchwork of obsolete and disparate...
[November 21, 2005, 23:00]
Budget In Brief: Fiscal Year 2004
White Papers For FY 2004, the IRS is requesting resources totaling $10.437 Billion and 100,043 FTE, an increase of $521 Million, or 5.3% over the President's FY 2003 request. The largest program increase is to strengthen compliance and customer service ($204 M).
[June 8, 2005, 0:00]
Obstacles To Disinflation: What Is The Role Of Fiscal Expectations?
White Papers Is backward-looking behavior in pricing or imperfect credibility of stabilization efforts responsible for the failure of inflation rates to decline to targeted levels during many disinflation programs?
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
Dell Beats Estimates By A Penny
News Dell beat expectations for its fiscal first quarter on stronger-than-expected sales. The company's outlook for its second fiscal quarter is guardedly optimistic. But despite its recent market share gains, the PC maker gave a conservative forecast...
[May 17, 2002, 12:03]
