Comment on “Fiscal Prudence and Growth Sustainability: An Analysis of China's Public Debts”

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Hung Kwan
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Prudence ◽  
Public Debts

Command Agriculture and Food Security: An Interrogation of State Intervention in the Post-Fast Track Land Redistribution Era in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962097933
Author(s):  
Langton Makuwerere Dube
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Contract Farming ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Land Redistribution ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
Fiscal Prudence

Command agriculture is a contract farming scheme necessitated by land redistribution that ruptured Zimbabwe’s sources of resilience, distorted credit access, heightened tenure insecurity, and spiked vulnerability to droughts. Using qualitative analysis of extant literature, this article rationalizes the program’s nobility of cause but argues that the program alone cannot revamp agriculture. Notwithstanding how the program has evolved, revamping agriculture also encompasses policies that address fiscal prudence and macroeconomic resilience. Equally important is agricultural training that fosters skills and technologies that are not only climate-responsive but also meet the demands of the constantly evolving agrarian value chain.

Public Debts and State Succession

1932 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 608 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Sack ◽  
Ernst H. Feilchenfeld
Keyword(s):  
State Succession ◽  
Public Debts

Public debts of Arab countries: selected indicators

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-324
Author(s):  
Gabi El-Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Debt Service ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Debts

This statistical file is concerned with the issue of public debts in Arab countries. It assumes that public debt is a key source to fund the budget deficit in most Arab countries, and the rising public debt, particularly external debt, is increasingly becoming a concern for several countries in the region due to the pressure debt servicing might impose on these countries, which basically suffer an uncomfortable primary balance, in addition to the impact of crises in the region. Table 1 provides indicators on domestic public debts with ratios of debts to GDP, while Table 2 gives figures of external public debts with debt ratios to GDP. Table 3 provides estimates of total public debts with their ratios to GDP, while Tables 4 and 5 show figures of external public debt service, ratios of debt servicing to exports of goods and services and external public debt service ratios to Arab governments’ revenues respectively.

scholarly journals Budgetary Discipline and Internal Devaluation – Estonian Method to Overcome the Crisis

Equilibrium ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Bernadeta Baran
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Single Currency ◽  
Positive Economic ◽  
Fixed Exchange Rate ◽  
Maastricht Criteria ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Public Debts

The purpose of this article is to outline the main reasons and effects of the  Estonian adjustments in response to the global financial and economic crisis. Estonia  chose significant budgetary savings, in contrast with most other countries stimulating  their economies by expansionary fiscal policy and leading to fiscal imbalances  and growing public debts. Estonia did not carry out a devaluation of its currency,  but restored competitiveness through internal devaluation. This strategy allowed  Estonia to maintain a fixed exchange rate, fulfill the Maastricht criteria and adopt  the single currency. As a result, Estonia has increased the stability of its economy,  restoring and enhancing confidence among investors. At the same time, the Estonian  strategy confirmed the existence of non-Keynesian effects – the positive economic  results of public spending reduction.  

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