Growth Implosions, Debt Explosions, and My Aunt Marilyn : Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises?

The worldwide slowdown in growth after 1975 was a major negative fiscal shock. Slower growth lowers the present value of tax revenues and primary surpluses and thus makes a given level of debt more burdensome. Most countries failed to adjust to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Easterly, william
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
GDP
OIL
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/1000470/growth-implosions-debt-explosions-aunt-marilyn-growth-slowdowns-cause-public-debt-crises
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15742