In Search of Lost Revenue : Why Restoring Fiscal Soundness After a Crisis is Harder Than it Looks /

This note argues that because fiscal deficit after a crisis owe much to a drop in tax revenues and a sluggish revenue growth, its adjustment has to rely more on revenue augmentation than commonly thought. Cutting extra spending in the wake of the crisis would not balance the book, while a natural gr...

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Autor principal: Miyazaki, Masato
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/137
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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