Categories: Economics

Fiscal Policy

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Fiscal Policy&comma; a very vital part of economics&comma; is referred to as the government spending as well as revenue collection of a country&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fiscal Policy has two main instruments that are&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">•    Government spending<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Taxation&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">There are certain changes in the composition and level of government spending and taxation that impact the following variables in the economy of a country&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">•    Aggregate demand and the level of economic activity&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Resource allocation pattern&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Distribution of income&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The overall effect of the budget outcome on an economic activity is termed as Fiscal policy of a country&period; There are three particular stances regarding the fiscal policy of a country that are&semi; neutral&comma; expansionary and contractionary&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">•    A neutral stance regards a balanced budget where &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Government spending &equals; Tax revenue” &lpar;G &equals; T&rpar;&period; The government spending is funded by tax revenue and the overall effect of the budget outcome is neutral on the economic activity&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Expansionary stance of the fiscal policy denotes a net increase in Government spending &lpar;G &gt&semi; T&rpar; through rises in government spending or a fall in taxation revenue or a combination of the two&period; The effect usually leads to a larger budget deficit or a smaller budget surplus than the Government previously had&comma; or a deficit if the Government previously had a balanced budget&period; Expansionary fiscal policy is mostly associated with budget deficit for an economy&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Contractionary fiscal policy &lpar;G &lt&semi; T&rpar; involves the reduction of the Government spending through higher taxation revenue or reduced Government spending or the combination of the two in such a way&period; This leads to a lower budget deficit or a larger surplus than the Government  previously had&comma; or a surplus if the government previously had a balanced budget&period; Contractionary fiscal policy is usually associated with a surplus&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3>Funding Methods<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The government spends money on a wide variety of things&comma; from the military and police to services like healthcare and education&comma; as well as transfer payments that stand as welfare benefits&period; This expenditure can be funded in a number of ways&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">•    Taxation<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Benefit from printing money<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Borrowing money from the population that results in a fiscal deficit&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Consumption of reserves&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    Sale of assets i-e land etc&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">There are two ways for the budgeting to go&comma; one is that the Government will face deficit&comma; and the other&comma; it will face a surplus&comma; these are the basic form of effects the Government spending have of course&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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