Trends in Public Finance : Insights from a New Detailed Dataset

Debra Bloch ; Jean-Marc Fournier ; Duarte Gonçalvesi ; Álvaro Pina iISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: COFOG;    taxes;    public finance;    inclusive growth;    public spending;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/4d3d8b25-en

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

To investigate how public finances could best be designed to promote long-run growth and address inequality, it is essential to have comprehensive, cross-country comparable data on government spending and revenues, along with structural and policy indicators. By identifying key variables of public finance across as many OECD countries as possible, and with a time series element to allow for longitudinal analysis, the OECD Public Finance Dataset provides a detailed data set to contribute to an evidence-based debate on shaping growth-enhancing and equality-promoting fiscal policies. Characteristics of both country groupings and individual country public finance profiles are highlighted as examples of the potential of these data to provide policy insights.