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Fiscal consolidation is a traditional concern, we can say at the European institutional level, ratified and gradually taken over by the member countries, implemented through the Stability and Growth Pact, and enshrined in the Treaty of Maastricht, which is part of the permanent bailouts of...
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Average gross general government debt-to-GDP ratios in advanced economies have almost reached their highest levels since WWII. Moreover, growing fiscal risks emerge from adverse fiscal-financial linkages and aging societies. Policy-makers should take advantage of the current economic recovery...
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the inflation rate, the deviation in real GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the deviation in money supply, the deviation in … weight to the deviation in unemployment rate, and moderate weights are assigned to the deviation in the inflation rate, the …
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Social protection and revenue collection are often regarded as potential drivers of social cohesion. The article joins this debate, providing three main contributions. First, we carefully discuss the concept of social cohesion and endorse one specific definition. Second, we propose using the...
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This study examined the effects of mobile money-a recent innovation in Uganda's financial-sector landscape-on aggregate economic activity and other macroeconomic variables. We first estimated the long-run mobile-money demand function using vector error correction (VEC) techniques, distinguishing...
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inflation. It is argued that that there is a tendency to slip from arguments which that the rate of interest is related to the … price level to suggesting that the rate of interest is related to the rate of inflation. The neo-Wicksellian approach is … inflation. It is also argued that the route through the exchange rate does not support the view that higher interest rates will …
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the reaction of post-Keynesian economists to examine alternatives to inflation-targeting monetary strategies and to Taylor …
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