Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia, facing a deficit of more than $2 billion, a tenth of the state budget, has asked agencies to come up with cuts across the board, said Alan Essig, executive director of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a nonpartisan group that studies fiscal affairs.
This paper studies fiscal policy in a model of sovereign debt and default.
This is my conclusion based on years of studying fiscal issues -- starting when I was president of Fidelity Investments, then as a member of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security under George W. Bush, and more recently while teaching at Harvard and MIT.
At a recent budget meeting, Mr. Proppe, who has a wild red beard, ran his hand through his bleached-blond hair as he studied the fiscal report from behind tinted, gold-rimmed glasses.
Vouchers were reviewed to identify PEPs begun during the study fiscal years, and vaccination clinics and specimen shipments during this same time period.
Retrospective cohort study (fiscal year [FY] 2001 to FY 2004) of 42,826 veterans with new-onset diabetes in FY 2003.
In a separate study of fiscal consolidation in Latin America between 1937 and 1995, Mr Voth pinpoints a tight link between fiscal consolidation and instability, across democracies and autocracies alike.Protests induced by austerity also attract far more participants than demonstrations sparked by other causes.
The study, The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK, by UCL's centre for research and analysis of migration, is largely based on the Labour Force Survey.
But at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association over the weekend in San Diego, health economists I spoke with expressed dismay over the study's fiscal implications.
The study concluded, "Fiscal adjustments beginning in a slack economy (like the current situation in the United States) appear to have a low probability of success".
The study, the Fiscal Impact of Immigration to the UK, published in the Economic Journal, reveals that more than 60% of new migrants from western and southern Europe are now university graduates.
