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Defining the welfare state is not a simpleminded task. Actually, there are numerous definitions which try to reflect at least some of the basic characteristics of the welfare state or its objectives and its functions. For some, there is primarily an institutional parameter, for others there are...
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caused persistence in fiscal deficit and the accumulation of public debt over time. These woes are added further by … persistent deficit in external accounts and, the resultant depreciation of Pakistani Rupee, which has havocked the cost of debt … (SOEs), government guarantees to the Independent Power Producers (IPPs), unsustainable debt and huge cost of debt …
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off-balance accounting, while high-debt countries reduce the private investors’ interest in PPP. Fiscal rules increased …
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This note, intended for cross-border and national investors like banks, companies, financial markets, large national and international institutions aims to answer the multiple questions on the decision-making to intervene or not in this country with lower middle income (PRITI). To paraphrase...
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In this paper, I explore how a household budget constraint allows one to construct a simple theory of exploding household debts. The conclusion reached in this paper is that in case the household started off being indebted, maintaining balanced budget all the time is a very dangerous choice. For...
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is no effect on budget deficits. These findings can be explained by a model in which direct democracy allows voters to …
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This study considers how present-biased preferences influence public debt policy when a violation of debt rules is … exhibits a strong present bias. We further extend the model by introducing a political process for determining the debt rule …, and we show that a polarization of debt rules emerges between countries with high and low degrees of present bias. …
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regression results), annual time series data and the generalized least squares technique to examine the effects of external debt … and external debt servicing on economic growth in Ethiopia between 1990 and 2018. Alemayahu and Zerfu (1998) confirm that … the level of debt in Ethiopia is beyond the capacity of the country to service it. This problem then begs the following …
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. Either budgetary deficit and public debt contain the quintessence of the convergence efforts in taking into account the … public debt, as much as each country is a part of a whole, is henceforth a reliable link for the member states of this great …
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effects of the budget policy.For that, we initially test the stationnarity of the debt on GDP ratio of the countries in the … to determine a rate of debt of 79% of the GDP, below which the expansionist policies have favorable effects on the …
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