Experience with Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU /

This paper reviews the experience of fiscal adjustment undertaken in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries since the entry into force of the 1994 treaty establishing the framework for a regional convergence of national fiscal policies. We propose a measure of the structural...

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Главный автор: Masson, Paul
Другие авторы: Dore, Ousmane
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/108
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF
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