Monetization of debt, fiscal austerity, and economic growth are three likely paths for solving the budget deficit.

Many countries have adopted fiscal rules to foster fiscal discipline, but compliance has been mixed. Recent policy shifts and heightened policy uncertainty further intensify spending pressures and ...

Ultra-long duration bonds have been subject to elevated volatility in recent years over fears of rising fiscal deficits. But ...

Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) has warned that the country’s widening fiscal deficit poses a serious threat to the ...

Brazil's government will need to tighten spending curbs in order to comply with its fiscal framework this year, it said in a ...

The federal government's budget deficit reached $2 trillion for the current fiscal year as the deficit has widened by nearly $100 billion from last year. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ...

MEXICO CITY--The Mexican government aims to continue narrowing the fiscal deficit in 2026, while raising spending and revenue as the economy picks up pace, according to the budget proposal submitted ...

Long Beach has relied on its Tidelands Trust for decades, but with recent changes to state regulation and the city beginning to move away from oil revenue — the town’s facing a big issue. For the ...

Togo's growth has been solid in recent years, exceeding 6% between 2021 and 2023, but is expected to slow to 5.3% in 2024 and 5.0% in 2025. The decline reflects the transition to tighter fiscal policy ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's fiscal deficit in April-July was 4.68 trillion rupees ($53.48 billion) or 29.9% of the estimate for the financial year ending March 31, government data showed on Friday. * ...

The time I used to spend on Twitter I now spend on Substack, and my life is much better for it. There are a lot of interesting, eclectic writers in the world. This week, for example, I stumbled across ...

Chicago’s finances were already on life support. Now, with a single piece of legislation, the state of Illinois has pushed the city closer to fiscal collapse—and put every American taxpayer at risk of ...