A New Action-based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean /

This paper presents a new database of fiscal consolidations for 14 Latin American and Caribbean economies during 1989-2016. We focus on discretionary changes in taxes and government spending primarily motivated by a desire to reduce the budget deficit and long-term fiscal health and not by a respons...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: David, Antonio
Outros Autores: Leigh, Daniel
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/094
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF