{"id":115224,"date":"2021-06-28T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=115224"},"modified":"2021-06-28T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:53:06","slug":"what-is-fiscal-deficit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-fiscal-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Fiscal Deficit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A fiscal deficit (FD) situation occurs when the government\u2019s expenditure exceeds its income. It is the difference between the total expenditure of the government and its total revenue (excluding borrowings).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN\">Fiscal deficit <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">is the gap between total expenditure and total income of the government. <\/span> <b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN\">The fiscal deficit <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">can arise either due to revenue expenses overshooting income or increase in capital expenditure<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">. <\/span> <b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN\">The fiscal deficit <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">matters because it indicates the extent by which government spending exceeds its income and the total borrowings needed by it to fill this gap. <\/span> <b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span lang=\"EN\">A fiscal deficit <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN\">is usually calculated and expressed as a percentage of a country\u2019s Gross <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">Domestic Product (GDP).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fiscal deficit (FD) situation occurs when the government\u2019s expenditure exceeds its income. It is the difference between the total expenditure of the government and its total revenue (excluding borrowings). Fiscal deficit is the gap between total expenditure and total income of the government. The fiscal deficit can arise either due to revenue expenses overshooting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-fiscal-deficit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Fiscal Deficit?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}