Looking for An Economically Meaningful Way to Assess Fiscal Policy.

This paper examines the behavior of private consumption in Mexico and Chile. Understanding private consumption behavior in developing countries is receiving increasing attention at a time many of them are required to substitute national saving for external saving. For both countries dealt with in th...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/051
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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