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) mission introduced. A comprehensive action plan has been introduced to improve the business climate. The outstanding debt …
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This study is carried out against a backdrop of deep divisions in Greece and in Europe over how to handle the challenges now confronting Greece. Greece’s deeper medium-term policy needs and identifying ways to replace the expected market financing are discussed. Structural reforms tackled...
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also studies the case in which the government conducts a voluntary debt restructuring to capture the capital gains from the … increase in its debt market value implied by a rule announcement. In addition, the paper shows how debt ceilings may reduce the …
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The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...
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strengthening fiscal consolidation, lowering the debt ratios, and ensuring the consistency of fiscal policies with the currency …
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This paper assesses the scope and coverage of quasi-fiscal activities (QFAs) in Ghana. We find that while QFAs have been reduced recently, they remain significant. The extensive nature of these activities has several macroeconomic and structural policy implications. An extended measure of public...
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The 2007/8 financial crisis exposed and exacerbated the debt pathologies of the ‘West’. The paper examines whether the … new global debt relations that have been generated by this crisis have transformed global power politics, changing the way … advanced and emerging economies and examines a number of key indicators related to debt, indebtedness and financial leverage …
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In this paper, the author considers sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which … debt share also determines the default risk: a higher domestic debt share means a lower default risk, ceteris paribus …, which leads to a lower risk premium; while a lower domestic debt share means a higher default risk and a higher risk premium …
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In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk …' interest by the borrowing government at the time of debt repayment, which captures the lenders' trust in the government …'s propensity to repay the debt and is denoted as », also determines the default risk: a higher » means a lower default risk ceteris …
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As it also happened in many Latin American countries during the 60s and 70s, inflation became one of the main economic problems in the Brazilian economy. The acceleration of prices and hyperinflation coexisted not only with periods of economic expansion (1956-1979), but also with huge...
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