Some medium-term fiscal arithmetic

A medium-term macro-fiscal exercise will make clear the analytical choices and trade-offs that the government faces

Rathin Roy 

Rathin Roy

There is little doubt that the central government is constrained for fiscal space and it is, therefore, important to think about solutions going forward. I offer a medium-term macro-fiscal exercise that makes clear the analytical choices and trade-offs that government faces.

I hope that this will demonstrate the value of a medium-term approach to budgeting, and the pressing need to shift to an operational medium-term fiscal framework (MTFF), which is how budgeting is now done in most major economies. The baseline scenario The baseline is built on the premise that all fiscal ...

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First Published: Fri, June 07 2019. 01:21 IST