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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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2018.
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| Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2018/094 |
| Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |