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27-473: According to Youth Forum statute, it is an organisation that is committed to building a democratic society in which solidarity, freedom, equality, social justice and quality education will be available to everyone. It sees a society in which the dignity of the individual will be guaranteed in social, legal and economic certainty. Its goal is to enable young people to participate in public life and decision-making process. Youth Forum members are able to get involved in

54-414: A government may say it intends to raise interest rates indefinitely to bring inflation under control, but then relax its stance later. This makes policy non-credible and ultimately ineffective. A rule-based policy can be more credible, because it is more transparent and easier to anticipate. Examples of rule-based policies are fixed exchange rates , interest rate rules , the stability and growth pact and

81-400: A predominant issue in the 19th century, as it became clear that industrial output, employment, and profit behaved in a cyclical manner. One of the first proposed policy solutions to the problem came with the work of Keynes , who proposed that fiscal policy could be used actively to ward off depressions, recessions and slumps. The Austrian School of economics argues that central banks create

108-529: A very high tariff on foreign trade. By the early modern age, more policy choices had been developed. There was considerable debate about mercantilism and other restrictive trade practices like the Navigation Acts , as trade policy became associated with both national wealth and with foreign and colonial policy. Throughout the 19th century, monetary standards became an important issue. Gold and silver were in supply in different proportions. Which metal

135-598: Is a set of policies that are imposed by an international body. This can occur (for example) as a result of intervention by the International Monetary Fund . The first economic problem was how to gain the resources it needed to be able to perform the functions of an early government: the military , roads and other projects like building the Pyramids . Early governments generally relied on tax in kind and forced labor for their economic resources. However, with

162-403: Is generally directed to achieve particular objectives, like targets for inflation , unemployment , or economic growth . Sometimes other objectives, like military spending or nationalization are important. These are referred to as the policy goals : the outcomes which the economic policy aims to achieve. To achieve these goals, governments use policy tools which are under the control of

189-430: Is in charge of representing the organization in public. The student wing of Youth Forum is Social Democratic Students Union (SSU). Current leadership: International Union of Socialist Youth The International Union of Socialist Youth ( IUSY ) is an international youth labour organization, whose activities include publications, supporting member organizations and organization of meetings. Originally named

216-519: Is to promote anti-war activities , fight climate change , and support socialist economic policies. The organization supports the UN 's Sustainable Development Goals . IUSY is led by its Presidium, elected every two years at the Congress, with representatives from all over the world. The current members (2023–2025) are listed below: President: Secretary general: Vice-presidents: As of November 2023,

243-679: The Golden Rule . Some policy rules can be imposed by external bodies, for instance, the Exchange Rate Mechanism for currency. A compromise between strict discretionary and strict rule-based policy is to grant discretionary power to an independent body. For instance, the Federal Reserve Bank , European Central Bank , Bank of England and Reserve Bank of Australia all set interest rates without government interference, but do not adopt rules. Another type of non-discretionary policy

270-411: The International Monetary Fund or World Bank as well as political beliefs and the consequent policies of parties. Almost every aspect of government has an important economic component. A few examples of the kinds of economic policies that exist include: Stabilization policy attempts to stimulate an economy out of recession or constrain the money supply to prevent excessive inflation. Policy

297-658: The Second World War , the organization formally rebranded to become the International Union of Socialist Youth. In the 1950s and 1960s, the group supported decolonization efforts in Africa and Asia. In the 1970s, the organization fought against human rights violations by military governments in South America. Today, the group mostly focuses on economic policy . The stated goal of the International Union of Socialist Youth

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324-444: The labour market , national ownership , and many other areas of government interventions into the economy. Most factors of economic policy can be divided into either fiscal policy , which deals with government actions regarding taxation and spending , or monetary policy , which deals with central banking actions regarding the money supply and interest rates. Such policies are often influenced by international institutions like

351-462: The 2019 Nobel Prize laureates exemplifies the gold type of evidence. However, the emphasis put on experimental evidence by the movement of evidence-based policy (and evidence-based medicine ) results from the narrowly construed notion of intervention, which encompasses only policy decisions concerned with policymaking aimed at modifying causes to influence effects. In contrast to this idealized view of evidence-based policy movement, economic policymaking

378-503: The 20th century, governments adopted discretionary policies like demand management designed to correct the business cycle . These typically used fiscal and monetary policy to adjust inflation, output and unemployment. However, following the stagflation of the 1970s , policymakers began to be attracted to policy rules . A discretionary policy is supported because it allows policymakers to respond quickly to events. However, discretionary policy can be subject to dynamic inconsistency :

405-595: The IUSY claims to have 122 member organizations from over 100 countries, in addition to roughly two dozen observer organizations. The member countries are grouped into five regions: Africa , the Americas , Asia-Pacific , Europe , and the Middle East . Economic policy The economy of governments covers the systems for setting levels of taxation , government budgets , the money supply and interest rates as well as

432-675: The SDP through local policy events, campaigning or by attending events and social gatherings. Youth Forum was founded in 1992 and is affiliated internationally to both the International Union of Socialist Youth and Young European Socialists . Every Croatian citizen from 16 to 30 years of age can become a member of the Youth Forum. Members of Youth Forum do not have to be members of SDP, but must not be members of another political party. The organisation has more than 8,000 members. The structure of

459-676: The Socialist Youth International as the youth organization of the Second International, headquartered in Vienna . The Socialist Youth International held parallel congresses in 1910 and 1912 following the International Socialist Congress, Copenhagen 1910 and International Socialist Congress, Basel 1912. The socialist youth organizations were confronted by the onset of World War I in 1914. The majority of

486-637: The Socialist Youth International, the union was formed at the 1907 International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart as the youth wing of the Second International . IUSY claims to have 145 member organizations, including 122 full members and 23 observer members, from 106 countries. IUSY gained prominence as an international youth non-governmental organization (NGO) with UN ECOSOC consultative status in 1993. From 24 to 27 August 1907, 21 youth representatives from 13 countries met in Stuttgart and found

513-432: The business cycle. After the dominance of monetarism and neoclassical thought that advised limiting the role of government in the economy in the second half of the twentieth century, the interventionist view has once more dominated the economic policy debate in response to the 2007-2008 financial crisis, A recent trend originating from medicine is to justify economic policy decisions with best available evidence. While

540-472: The development of money came the first policy choice. A government could raise money through taxing its citizens. However, it could now also debase the coinage and so increase the money supply . Early civilizations also made decisions about whether to permit and how to tax trade . Some early civilizations, such as Ptolemaic Egypt adopted a closed currency policy whereby foreign merchants had to exchange their coin for local money. This effectively levied

567-507: The government. These generally include the interest rate and money supply , tax and government spending, tariffs, exchange rates , labor market regulations, and many other aspects of government. Government and central banks are limited in the number of goals they can achieve in the short term. For instance, there may be pressure on the government to reduce inflation, reduce unemployment, and reduce interest rates while maintaining currency stability. If all of these are selected as goals for

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594-651: The organization is determined by organisation's statute. It is organised at the state level and consists of county, city and municipal organizations. The central authorities are: The highest body of the Youth forum is the Convention that consists of delegates elected on the conventions of local organizations. Delegates elect the President, Vice-Presidents and the Supervisory Board for a term of two years. President of Youth forum

621-430: The previous approaches have been focused on macroeconomic policymaking aimed at sustaining promoting economic development and counteracting recessions, EBP is oriented towards all types of decisions concerned not only with anti-cyclical development but primarily with the growth-promoting policies. To gather evidence for such decisions, economists conduct randomized field experiments. The work of Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer,

648-522: The short term, then policy is likely to be incoherent, because a normal consequence of reducing inflation and maintaining currency stability is increasing unemployment and increasing interest rates. This dilemma can in part be resolved by using microeconomic supply-side policy to help adjust markets. For instance, unemployment could potentially be reduced by altering laws relating to trade unions or unemployment insurance , as well as by macroeconomic ( demand-side ) factors like interest rates. For much of

675-606: The socialist parties supported their respective countries' war efforts, but the Socialist Youth International remained opposed to it. The organization moved its offices to Zurich and published its journal, Youth International , calling for peace (distributed illegally). This anti-war activism later became a core part of the organization. The formation of the Communist International in Moscow in 1919 split

702-401: The worldwide socialist movement into communist , socialist and socdem wings. An alliance between the socialist and socdem wings resulted in a return of Socialist Youth International in 1923. After the fascist takeover of Italy , the totalitarian government barred Italian Youth from being a part of the organization. This spurred action for anti-fascist causes in the organization. After

729-604: Was adopted influenced the wealth of different groups in society. With the accumulation of private capital in the Renaissance, states developed methods of financing deficits without debasing their coin. The development of capital markets meant that a government could borrow money to finance war or expansion while causing less economic hardship. This was the beginning of modern fiscal policy . The same markets made it easy for private entities to raise bonds or sell stock to fund private initiatives. The business cycle became

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