Assessing Fiscal Soundness: Theory and Practice

Fiscal Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Introduction

Schwab's Practical Theory: Integrate of Theory and Practice

The emergence of re-conceptualism in the field of curriculum studies caused a large rotation of identity in this field. The book titled "understanding of curriculum" by William Pinar may be considered the most outstanding work in the field. In this book, movement which affected pre re-conceptualist, are introduced as the traditional type and it is believed the new curriculum discourses should b...

Competency-Based Curriculum: Linking Theory and Practice

Background and objective: Most higher education curricula do not provide the competencies graduates need in the occupational fields, resulting in waste of money and lower effectiveness while increasing the number of unemployed graduates. Competency-based education is an innovative educational model that can solve such problems and lead education activists to design competency-based curricula. T...

Fiscal Sustainability in Iran: Assessing the Period of 1342- 1380

Budget deficit constitutes a major fiscal indicator. It has major important ramification on macro-economic position of all nations. In developing countries generally, and in Iran specifically, governments are likely to spend more on miscellaneous as well as differentiated obligations causing high expenditure costs with respect to their limited revenues. This causes a budget deficit to incur. Th...

Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Shocks

This paper investigates the response of hours worked and real wages to fiscal policy shocks in the U.S. during the post World War II era. We identify these shocks with exogenous changes in military purchases and argue that they lead to (i) a persistent increase in government purchases and tax rates on capital and labor income, and (ii) a persistent rise in aggregate hours worked as well as decl...