Investing in the early years is one of the smartest things a country can do to eliminate extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and create the human capital needed for economies to diversify and ...

Union Budget 2026: Fiscal policy refers to the government’s strategy for raising revenue and deciding how that money will be spent in order to maintain a healthy economy. When the government collects ...

As the Union Budget 2026 approaches, fiscal policy becomes the backbone of every major announcement from tax relief and welfare schemes to infrastructure push and borrowing plans. The Budget is not ...

The conference, part of the Fiscal Affairs Department’s Sovereign Debt Network Project, brings together leading scholars and senior policymakers to explore a range of fiscal issues of import to the ...

The Executive Board discussed the Independent Evaluation Office’s review of IMF fiscal policy advice from 2008 to 2023. Directors welcomed the evaluation and noted the Fund’s progress in adapting its ...

Fiscal policy is the legislative actions a government makes to regulate its economy to attain growth and alleviate poverty, usually through spending and taxation. Much of the theory around fiscal ...