This paper examines whether the current level of debt in the country, given the national government's fiscal policy and … about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's debt-to-GDP ratio had already climbed to 60.5 percent, over 20 percentage … public debt, (2) tracking the evolution of the debt-to-GDP ratio in the next half-decade through standard debt sustainability …

This paper assesses Costa Rica's public debt sustainability empirically using three complementary approaches: the … calculation of the debt-stabilizing primary fiscal balance obtained from the government's intertemporal budget constraint, the … by Bohn (2007); and the estimation of fan charts for the primary fiscal balance and public debt expressed as shares of …

component of cross-border assets and liabilities has made net foreign assets much harder to track, and may have introduced …