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In: The world today, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 14-16
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In: The world today, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 14-16
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A suppressed report on the now defunct NHS University speaks volumes about government waste
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In: The world today, Band 42, Heft 2-3, S. 26-27
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It is argued that the European Union (EU) is being undermined by its economic problems. Stagnating economies & growing government deficits mean that living standards are on a path of gradual decline. Consumer confidence is low among EU citizens, & many in the EU associate EU membership with currently poor labor markets. Liberalizing market reforms proposed by Jose Manuel Barroso should help to foster economic growth & an improved labor market, but success will also depend on communicating the benefits of reform to the EU public. Euro area economies compare poorly with the economies in the US, Great Britain, Canada, & Japan, but it is argued that market reforms will need to be balanced with existing concerns for social justice. Adapted from the source document.
In: U.S. news & world report, Band 64, S. 15-17
ISSN: 0041-5537
In: Economic affairs: journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 58-58
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In: Journal of policy modeling: JPMOD ; a social science forum of world issues, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 163-191
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In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 47, Heft 3
ISSN: 1467-825X
Whether to increase taxes or cut spending is an important question with profound policy implications, especially as countries attempt to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study, therefore, investigated the relationship between revenues and spending in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), where concerns about rising debt and deficits were raised prior to the pandemic. A panel bootstrap Granger-causality technique was used to analyze annual frequency data covering the 1980–2018 period. To our best knowledge, this was the first study in Africa to simultaneously account for cross-country differences and cross-section dependence. The findings of the study have in-depth implications for fiscal policy and adjustments towards budgetary equilibria. The study found no evidence of causality between revenues and spending in eleven SADC member states, suggesting that to balance their respective budgets, governments in these countries can alter either spending or revenues, or both. However, in Botswana, we found evidence of the tax-spend hypothesis, implying that governments should consider altering revenues to eliminate budget imbalances. Finally, evidence of the spend-tax hypothesis was found in Mauritius and Mozambique, suggesting that past and current expenditures drive revenues in these countries. Accordingly, cutting spending would be an ideal policy recourse to deal with budgetary disequilibrium.
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Whether to increase taxes or cut spending is an important question with profound policy implications, especially as countries attempt to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study, therefore, investigated the relationship between revenues and spending in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), where concerns about rising debt and deficits were raised prior to the pandemic. A panel bootstrap Granger-causality technique was used to analyze annual frequency data covering the 1980–2018 period. To our best knowledge, this was the first study in Africa to simultaneously account for cross-country differences and cross-section dependence. The findings of the study have in-depth implications for fiscal policy and adjustments towards budgetary equilibria. The study found no evidence of causality between revenues and spending in eleven SADC member states, suggesting that to balance their respective budgets, governments in these countries can alter either spending or revenues, or both. However, in Botswana, we found evidence of the tax-spend hypothesis, implying that governments should consider altering revenues to eliminate budget imbalances. Finally, evidence of the spend-tax hypothesis was found in Mauritius and Mozambique, suggesting that past and current expenditures drive revenues in these countries. Accordingly, cutting spending would be an ideal policy recourse to deal with budgetary disequilibrium.
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