The 'Fiscal Presource Curse' : Giant Discoveries and Debt Sustainability /

This paper investigates the dynamic impact of natural resource discoveries on government debt sustainability. We use a 'natural experiment' framework in which the timing of discoveries is treated as an exogenous source of within-country variation. We combine data on government debt, fiscal...

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Auteur principal: Ruzzante, Matteo
Autres auteurs: Sobrinho, Nelson
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/010
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