652

Public Finance

Scope Note

Government budgets and financial estimates; statistics of public revenues and expenditures; government accounts; appropriations and financial legislation; disposition of surplus revenues; methods of meeting deficits (e.g., borrowing, currency inflation, debt repudiation); fiscal policies (e.g., use of public finance to influence foreign trade or employment); public debt and debt service; issuance and manipulation of currency; relations of the treasury with private banks; government banks; etc.

Broader Term
650 Government Activities
Related Terms
426 Borrowing And Lending
436 Medium Of Exchange
451 Accounting
453 Banking
Use Fors
Accounts (government)
Appropriations (government)
Balance of payments (public finance)
Bank discounts (in public finance)
Banks (government, as public finance)
Bonds (government)
Borrowing (government)
Budgets (government)
Controls (government)
Currency (government issuance and manipulation)
Deficit financing (government)
Deflation (economic public finance)
Devaluation of currency (government)
Discounts (government control)
Finance (public)
Financial legislation
Fiscal policies (government)
Foreign exchange (government policies)
Government accounts
Government appropriations
Government banks
Government bonds
Inflation (currency)
Interest on public debt
Legislation (financial)
Lending (government)
Policy (government fiscal)
Price controls by government
Public debt
Revenue statistics (public)
Statistics (revenue)
Treasury (government)
Identifier
652

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