Easterly, William; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
Fiscal deficits have been at the forefront of macroeconomic adjustment in the 1980s, both in developing and developed countries. Fiscal deficits were blamed in good part for the assortment of ills that beset developing countries in the 1980s: over-indebtedness leading to the debt crisis...