Fiscal Policy and Economic Reforms: Essays in Honour of Vito Tanzi (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Blejer, Mario I.; Ter-Minassian, Teresa

ISBN 10: 041513739X / ISBN 13: 9780415137393

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiscal Policy and Economic Reforms: Essays in Honour of Vito Tanzi (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041513739X
• ISBN 13: 9780415137393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • Politics

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Synopsis

Following Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public Finance, this is the second volume of essays in honour of Vito Tanzi. It focuses on the importance of fiscal policy on the wholesale economic reforms that are sweeping the advanced, less developed and formally communist countries. Issues analyzed include:
* the role of fiscal and budgetary policies in the process of reform
* the impact of privatization on the exchequer and the dilemmas for social policy in times of fiscal austerity
* the paradox of post-socialism and post-dirigisme that an efficient and harmonic move to a decontrolled, liberal market economy involves active state intervention
* the methodological aspects relating to the proper assessment of fiscal policy mechanisms.
This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of the channels and transmissions mechanisms of fiscal policies in the context of major economic reforms.

About the Author

Mario I.Blejer is Senior Adviser at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He holds an economics Ph.D from Chicago and has taught at Hebrew, Boston and New York universities. He has published extensively on monetary and fiscal issues and transition economies. Teresa Ter-Minassian holds degrees in law and economics from Rome and Harvard. She reached the grade of Division Chief at the Bank of Italy before taking a permanent position at the IMF, where she is currently Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department.