Are Europe's Social Security Finances Compatible with EMU? /

Pursuant to the Treaty of Maastricht, members of the European Union (EU) intend to participate in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), in part through convergence toward specified limits on the overall deficit and gross debt of general government. The paper argues that in several EU members, the f...

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Autor principal: Kopits, George
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Colección:IMF Policy Discussion Papers; Policy Discussion Paper ; No. 1997/003
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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