An IMF study uses artificial intelligence to analyze decades of economic reports and build a global dataset of government ...

Indonesia’s hard-won fiscal credibility is being tested as off-budget spending, new state financial institutions and ...

We build the first global quarterly narrative database of discretionary government spending actions by applying a fixed GPT–4.1 prompt to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Reports. The ...

China's more proactive fiscal policy this year is marked by expanded funding, robust policy support and enhanced coordination, aimed at effectively mitigating short-term fluctuations and strengthening ...

Inflation and its consequences for growth are a growing concern for countries where memories of the 2022 energy crisis are ...

REKA JUHASZ is an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and a cofounder of the Industrial Policy Group, an empirical research lab dedicated to studying industrial ...

Her insights on financial regulations and monetary policy guided big banks and Washington policymakers. By Stacy Cowley Karen Petrou, a fiscal policy analyst whose insights into banking regulation and ...

South Africa’s plan to control public finances via a so-called fiscal rule will help restore policy credibility but it will ...

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 ...

Governments around the world don’t have the fiscal capacity needed to respond to any economic downturn caused by an oil shock fueled by prolonged war in Iran, the IMF’s former top deputy and chief ...

Indonesia could face a sharp fiscal squeeze if the US-Israel war on Iran pushes oil prices higher, analysts warn, as this risks inflating the country’s fuel subsidy bill at a time when global ratings ...