Thursday, 22 March 2018

Digital revolutions in public finance

a column by Sanjeev Gupta, Michael Keen, Alpa Shah and Geneviève Verdier for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Digitalisation has vastly increased our ability to collect and exploit the information that governments use to implement macroeconomic policy. The column argues that the ability of governments to use the vast amounts of information held in the private sector on financial transactions are already making fiscal policy more efficient and effective. Problems of access to digital technology, cybersecurity risks, and the difficulty of organisational change in the public sector may slow the pace at which these opportunities are exploited.

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