The use of government spending and taxation to influence macroeconomic conditions. Fiscal policy was actively pursued to sustain full employment in the post-war years; however, monetarists and others have claimed that this set off the inflation of the 1970s. Fiscal policy has remained generally 'tight' in most Western countries since the 1980s.

• intermediate-term
• intermediation
• internal audit
• internal capital generation rate
• internal control
• internal growth
• internal rate of return
• Internal Revenue Code
• Internal Revenue Service
• International Accounting Standards Board
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• International Banking Credit Agency
• international banking facility
• international bond
• International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes
• International Chamber of Commerce
• International Commodities Clearing House
• international commodity agreements
• International Depository Receipt
• International Development Association
• International Finance Corporation
• international Fisher effect
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
• international futures
• International Monetary Fund