Big Government, High Debt, and Fiscal Adjustment in Small States /

Using a new fiscal dataset for small states, this paper analyzes the link between country size, government size, debt, and economic performance. It finds that on average small states have larger governments and higher public debt. Although there are intrinsic factors that explain why governments are...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Ota, Rui
مؤلفون آخرون: Medina Cas, Stephanie
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/039
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF