Can They Do It All? : Fiscal Space in Low-Income Countries /

According to U.N. estimates, low-income countries will have to increase their annual public spending by up to 30 percent of GDP to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), raising the question of whether they can do it all. This paper develops a new metric of fiscal space in low-income coun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baum, Anja
Other Authors: Hodge, Andrew, Mineshima, Aiko, Moreno Badia, Marialuz
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/110
Online Access:Full text available on IMF