providing coherent and informative answers to such important questions as the effect of federal government debt on interest …

global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug …

since the early 1990s. Higher government spending, taxes that did not keep pace with expenditures, and severe recession led … to an unsustainable debt-to-GDP ratio of 52 percent in 2002. Short-term tax increases, even coupled with spending reforms …, have not restored Colombia to fiscal balance. A Colombian government commission charged with researching more long-term tax …

in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and energy wealth. When prices skyrocket …

Credit brings together leading international researchers to focus specifically on consumer debt, presenting current empirical …

Credit brings together leading international researchers to focus specifically on consumer debt, presenting current empirical …

stabilization and growth, Cooper examines the experience of developing countries faced by the oil shocks of the 1970s and the debt … political organization and external debt resolution. The first chapter focuses on countries that experienced adverse shocks from … individual developing nations to the world economic system, the final two chapters examine the question of external debt and why …