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Very widely interpreted, fiscal policy comprises a whole corpus of ‘public finance’ issues: the relative size of the public sector, taxation and expenditure, and the allocation of public sector responsibilities between different tiers of government (Prest, 1979). Hence fiscal policy is concerned with a far wider area than that commonly associated with it, namely, the aggregate management of the economy in terms of controlling inflation and employment levels.
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© 1983 Ali M. El-Agraa
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El-Agraa, A.M. (1983). EC Fiscal Policy. In: El-Agraa, A.M. (eds) Britain within the European Community. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17136-1_12
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