France : Selected Issues.

This Selected Issues paper analyzes expenditure reforms in France. After decades of rising public spending and successive tax increases, the medium-term fiscal consolidation path described in the 2015 Stability Program is now fully expenditure based. However, recent efforts of nominal spending conta...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. European Dept
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2015/179
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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