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Given the recent economic downturn and the limited scope of monetary policy to provide additional stimulus for the economy, fiscal policy was regarded as the main tool for the economic recovery. The mix of expenditure and revenue measures has important implications with respect to output growth, as well as to other key macroeconomic variables. The literature on the determinants of successful fiscal consolidations generally favours spending-based over revenue-based adjustments and in particular, the empirical liter...