"This book surveys the main issues relating to the static macroeconomic consequences of the government budget constraint, that is, the effects of alternative sources of financing government expenditure on macroeconomic variables such as inflation, exchange rates, interest rates, national output, private savings and investment. Government expenditure is constrained by available sources of finance, broadly divided into internal and external sources. The study advocates a judicious balance between the alternative sources for the financing mix to be adequate as well as consistent with macroeconomic stability."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Bilingual background report to "Taxation and household saving"/"Fiscalité et épargne des ménages". This questionnaire survey on how different types of savings by households are taxed in each of the OECD countries shows how each country views its own tax system.

This paper highlights that world economic growth is estimated to have declined from 31⁄4 percent in 1989 to 2 percent in 1990, reflecting a slowdown in the industrial countries and a fall in economic activity in developing countries of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere. The growth of the world economy is expected to decline further in 1991 (to 11⁄4 percent) owing to the weakness of some industrial economies, and to further declines in output in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe.

A collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Japanese Financial Growth, held in London in October 1988. The papers cover not only the subject of Japanese financial development, but also the question of how its likely future patterns may affect the global capital market.

Much has been written about globalization as an economic and political concept. The academic debate looks forward for explanations about the historical roots and development of this emerging phenomenon where the Nation-State’s evolved into a system where nations are ruled by the dynamics of global interdependence. Globalization in the new era is characterized as a process where geographical, political and cultural borders tend to dissolve. The Westphalia notion of sovereignty capitulates against the principle of political subordination as integration of local power ensuring national legitimacy.

Recoge: 1. Introduction. - 2. Stylised facts about labour productivity growth and its driving forces. - 3. Evaluation of the different approaches for making long-run productivity projections. - 4. Overview of the methodology adopted for the present projections. - 5. Main results of baseline projections. - 6. Sensitive tests on productivity and GDP per capita. - 7. Concluding remarks. - 8. Annexes.

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