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Shift effort to include area of fiscal planning (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

budgetary

'of fiscal planning' is the definition.
(relating to budgeting)

'shift effort to include area' is the wordplay.
'shift' becomes 'budge' (synonyms).
'effort' becomes 'try' (synonyms).
'to include' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'area' becomes 'a' (maths abbreviation).
'try' enclosing 'a' is 'tary'.
'budge'+'tary'='BUDGETARY'

(Another definition for budgetary that I've seen is " of financial planning".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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