Fiscal Policy and Long-Run Growth

Vito Tanzi and Howell Zee
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Vito Tanzi: International Monetary Fund

IMF Staff Papers, 1997, vol. 44, issue 2, 179-209

Abstract: This paper discusses in a systematic and comprehensive way the existing literature on the relationship between the growth of countries' economies and various public finance instruments, such as tax policy, expenditure policy, and overall budgetary policy, from the perspectives of allocative efficiency, macroeconomic stability, and income distribution. It reviews both the conceptual linkages between each of the instruments and growth and the empirical evidence of such relationships. The paper broadly concludes that fiscal policy could play a fundamental role in affecting the longrun growth performance of countries.

JEL-codes: E60 H00 O00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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