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In this chapter, we review the monetary and fiscal history of Argentina for the period 1960–2017, a time during which then country suffered several balance of payments crises, three periods of hyperinflation, two defaults on government debt, and three banking crises. All told, between 1969 and...
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into four periods, which are mainly distinguished by inflation levels, the source of financing of the public-sector deficit …, and the central bank legal framework. The four main periods are 1962–1980, when inflation and the deficit were moderate … in the country's history took place and inflation levels remained moderate nonetheless; and finally, 2004–2017, the …
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After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained growth. Indeed, it achieved unprecedented growth from 1960 to 1977. The rapid accumulation of debt due to persistent deficits and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s...
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Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the … first oil shock (1973), but accelerated again afterward, reaching levels above 100 percent on average between 1980 and 1994 … crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation period (1960–1994) was characterized by a combination of fiscal …
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spending, not financed by an increase in taxes or debt, induced high and unpredictable inflation. Price stability was achieved … inflation …
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framework of monetary and fiscal policies, and the levels of inflation: 1960-1970, when both inflation and the fiscal deficit … were low on average; 1971-1990, when both inflation and the fiscal deficit increased; and 1991-2017, when despite the … highest average fiscal deficit and the worst recession of the century, inflation kept a downward trend in the context of a …
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characterized by high inflation and sustained large deficits, and a large banking crisis in 1965. Since the mid-1970s, the … deficit and inflation. The evidence collected suggests governments have slowly understood the importance of fiscal constraints …
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After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained growth. Indeed, it achieved unprecedented growth during 1960–1977. Mistakes in economic policies, especially the rapid accumulation of debt and a fixed exchange rate policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898376
Brazil had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100% per year in 1964, and accelerated again in the 1970s … problems and economic stagnation that followed the external debt crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation …. The transition to the low-inflation period (1995-2016) was characterized by improvements in all those instances, but it …
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Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the … first oil shock (1973), but accelerated again afterward, reaching levels above 100 percent on average between 1980 and 1994 … crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation period (1960-1994) was characterized by a combination of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479377