What are Fiscal Rules? A fiscal rule is a long-lasting constraint on fiscal policy through numerical limits on budgetary aggregates. Fiscal rules typically aim at correcting distorted incentives and ...

The International Financial Statistics (IFS) database of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial indicators for most of its member countries, other selected countries, and regions as ...

The International Monetary Fund, founded in 1944, is a voluntary financial institution ... The IMF maintains an extensive database of statistics on members’ economies and on the world economy as a ...