finance ministry
State money department
A finance ministry is the government department responsible for managing a nation's public finances—collecting taxes, preparing budgets, regulating financial markets, and setting economic policy.
In the United States, this function belongs to the Treasury Department; in the UK, the Treasury or Exchequer.
The finance ministry announced new austerity measures.
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- fiscal deficitSpending exceeds revenue
- deficit spendingExpenditures funded by debt
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- inflation controlPolicies limiting price increases
public sector · fiscal policy · auditing · revenue collection · economic forecasting · debt management · public expenditure · treasury department · tax authority · budget office · tax reform · appropriations · monetary policy · government spending · balanced budget · budget deficit · planning commission · exchequer
- Economic Bodieseconomic council, treasury department, central bank, budget office, commerce department
- Rwanda Governmentministries, governors, mayors, provinces, sectors
- governmentgovernment, ministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch
- German PoliticsBundesrat, CSU, Nazi Party, Greens, federal republic
- QuebecQuebec City, Montreal, premier, National Assembly, premiers
- Egyptian GovernmentMubarak, Sadat, Nasser, ministries, presidency
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National currency management institution
Federal Reserve · European Central Bank · Bank of England · reserve bank · federal reserve
finance ministryprivate sector
Economy outside government control
private enterprise · free market · commercial banks · private equity · Wall Street
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