Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Forecasts for the European Union covering 2012-2014 were out on Wednesday. FT Alphaville thinks the EC may be ...

Olli Rehn is the European Commissioner for economics. Olli has spent much of his time in recent years telling everyone that Europe’s austerity policies were working and the Eurozone economy was just ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The IMF’s forecasters are terribly worried about global growth – its new report not only contains further ...

Empirical (employing the Blanchard-Perotti framework) and modeling (using a country-specific DSGE model) approaches are used to estimate fiscal multipliers by policy instrument for Bolivia, to ...

Pakistan’s economy has been in downturn for a number of years now. This has negatively impacted employment and poverty situation, where based on poverty line determined at USD 4.20, World Bank ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a ₹20 trillion stimulus package, which amounts to around 10% of India’s GDP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 8 pm on Tuesday announced a ₹20 trillion ...

Amid renewed crisis, falling tax revenues, and rising debt, Ukraine faces serious fiscal consolidation needs. Durable fiscal adjustment can support economic confidence and rebuild buffers but what is ...

The United States has implemented large-scale fiscal policy measures to help households and businesses cushion the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and to strengthen the recovery. The ...

THERE used to be a popular quip that the IMF’s acronym stood for “It’s Mostly Fiscal”, because, whatever the problem, the fund’s economists would advocate tighter fiscal policy. How times change. In ...

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz defended the central bank’s decision to assume relatively large multipliers from Canada’s new fiscal stimulus, citing slack in the economy that will limit any ...