Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies /

Today's record public debt levels in most advanced economies are not only a direct fall-out from the global crisis. Public debt had ratcheted up over many decades before, when it had been used, in most of the G-7 countries, as the ultimate shock absorber-rising in bad times but not declining mu...

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Autor Principal: Schaechter, Andrea
Outros autores: Cottarelli, Carlo
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Staff Position Notes; Staff Position Note ; No. 2010/013
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF