A
- Affidavit
- A written or printed statement made under oath.
- Affirmative procedure
- A type of parliamentary procedure that applies to statutory instruments (SIs). Its name describes the form of scrutiny that the SI receives from Parliament.
B
- Budget
- A comprehensive statement of Government financial plans which include expenditures, revenues, deficit or surplus and debt. T
C
- Cash transfers
- Benefits provided to eligible individuals by governments that are not required to be spent on a specific good or service. Examples of cash transfers include pensions, unemployment benefits and development aid.
- CBA
- Central Budget Authority
- Composite index
- An indicator formed by compiling individual indicators into a single index on the basis of an underlying model.
F
- Fiscal Rule
- A numerical fiscal rule refers to a permanent constraint on fiscal policy aggregates (e.g. in-year rules are excluded).
- FTE
- Full-time equivalent. The number of full-time equivalent jobs, defined as total hours worked divided by average annual hours worked in full-time jobs.
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