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If Pakistan were a person, it would have probably been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Few trips to Gulf capitals;...

Rating agency Moody’s estimates Romania economy will grow by 3% in 2024 and 3.5% in 2025, supported by consumption, but also by public and private investment, while the government will further face high fiscal and current account gaps, reveals a periodic report on the local market.

Rating agency Moody’s estimates Romania economy will grow by 3% in 2024 and 3.5% in 2025, supported by consumption, but also by public and private investment, while the government will further face high fiscal and current account gaps, reveals a periodic report on the local market.

Indias fiscal deficit for April to December, or the first nine months of this fiscal year, was at 9.82 lakh crore rupees, equivalent to 55% of annual estimates, narrowing from the previous years 59.8%. The government aims to narrow the fiscal gap to 5.9% of GDP in this financial year from 6.4% a year earlier.

The government has committed to reducing its fiscal deficit to 4.5% of GDP by FY26. How good is that? How has India’s record on the fiscal deficit reduction been?

The federal budget deficit came to an estimated $1.6 trillion in the first 10 months of the 2023 fiscal year, according to the latest monthly analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. The fiscal gap is more than twice as large this year as it was last year at the same point in the calendar. Outlays have been 10% higher in the current fiscal year, which began in October 2022, while revenues have been 10% lower. In light of the most recent data, the CBO has revised its estimate for the full-y

While announcing the federal budget for this fiscal year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India aims to narrow the fiscal gap to 5.9% of gross domestic product from 6.4% in the last financial year.

Congress should avail itself of fully dynamic long-term budget scoring in order to be fully informed before making fiscal decisions.

IMF has worked out a larger gap of approximately 900 billion rupees, equivalent to 1 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Latin America and the Caribbean economies have recovered to their pre-pandemic levels and the region has regained some sense of normalcy...