Deficit financing is essentially covering the gap between government spending and revenue through borrowing and/or money creation.
Deficit financing is akin to
Asked in WBCS Main Paper 5 2022 · Topic: Fiscal Policy & Revenue (Fiscal Deficits: Concepts, measures, and financing of deficits)
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Answer: A. financing the budgetary deficit through public loans and creation of new money.
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