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This paper discusses key findings of the Second Review for Pakistan and a request for the augmentation of access under the Stand-By Arrangement. Program performance has been mixed. All end-March quantitative performance criteria were met, but structural reform has been slower than programmed....
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response the debt is more important in the effect of monetary policy, for prices, the "Ricardian" nature of fiscal policy … appears to be far more crucial. However, regarding inflation targeting, monetary policy is most effective in the low debt …
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response the debt is more important in the effect of monetary policy, for prices, the "Ricardian" nature of fiscal policy … appears to be far more crucial. However, regarding inflation targeting, monetary policy is most effective in the low debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336399
The financial crisis and recession have left a legacy of unusually large fiscal deficits and growing sovereign debt …. Fiscal space is defined as the room the government has to borrow before it hits a debt limit, the level of debt to GDP at … which the debt dynamics become unstable, unless the government undertakes exceptional fiscal action. The debt limit is a …
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The Croatian system of old-age provision comprises a traditional public pay-as-you-go scheme and a mandatory funded scheme (“second pillar”) that will provide increasing amounts of supplementary pensions to those entering retirement in the future. Due to the continuing economic crisis, the...
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In this paper, I demonstrate that an indicator which is commonly used to assess the long-term fiscal sustainability of public finances in EU member states (“S2”) is also defined if government borrowing rates are assumed to be permanently lower than the growth rate of GDP. I illustrate this...
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The Croatian system of old-age provision comprises a traditional public pay-as-you-go scheme and a mandatory funded scheme ("second pillar") that will provide increasing amounts of supplementary pensions to those entering retirement in the future. Due to the continuing economic crisis, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429587
In this paper, I demonstrate that an indicator which is commonly used to assess the long-term fiscal sustainability of public finances in EU member states (“S2”) is also defined if government borrowing rates are assumed to be permanently lower than the growth rate of GDP. I illustrate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421177
In light of the growing public debt, the issue of debt sustainability has increasingly attracted attention. At least … to prevent already high public-debt-to-GDP ratios from a further significant rise, also the case of Romania. However …, drastic fiscal policy adjustment may be not feasible in the short term and hence public debt is likely to grow further. …
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debt was derailed by the global crisis. Restoring the strategy is a priority, especially as spreads on Belgian debt have …
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