From Plans to Reality: Budget Credibility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pablo Lopez Murphy,
Can Sever and
Qianqian Zhang | 30 June 2026
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Africa,
Tax Expenditures Budgets are the central policy instrument for articulating government priorities, allocating scarce resources, and determining the fiscal stance. They set out governments’ expectations for revenues, borrowing, and spending based on policy priorities, macroeconomic forecasts, and financing assumptions.
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Tax Expenditures Country Report: Switzerland
Peter Hongler and
Agustin Redonda | 23 June 2026
Fiscal,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
GTED,
GTETI,
Switzerland,
Tax Expenditures Beyond transparency concerns, the absence of robust information undermines the evaluation of tax expenditure effectiveness. Switzerland lags significantly behind international standards in this area ...
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Country Report on Tax Expenditures in Switzerland: Transparency, Costs and the Need for Reform
23 June | 15.45-19.15 CEST | Bern, Switzerland Fiscal,
Panel | Tags:
Switzerland,
Tax Expenditures Tax expenditures serve a wide range of purposes: stimulating investment, supporting social objectives and accompanying structural change are just a few examples. In Switzerland, the last estimate for federal tax expenditures puts them at CHF 25 billion per year...
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Economic Policies for Affordable, Secure and Clean Energy: Synthesis Report
Patrick Lenain | 5 June 2026
Fiscal,
Policy Briefs | Tags:
Decarbonization,
Energy,
Industrial Policy,
Policy Coherence,
Tax Expenditures Recent energy crises, surging electricity demand and accelerating climate change have pushed affordable, secure, and clean energy to the top of policy agendas worldwide. The challenge respects no borders,making cross-country perspectives timely.
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Forget Stablecoins
Burkhard Drees and
Sunil Sharma | 2 June 2026
Monetary,
Commentary | Tags:
CBDC,
Central Banks,
Financial Governance,
Stablecoins Modern banking systems are inherently fragile because they assign to private institutions the contradictory tasks of simultaneously creating money and financing risky lending. Digital innovation amplifies this fragility: stablecoins introduce new layers of runnable instruments, while digitization accelerates financial panics.
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