Part II Developments in Individual Countries
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English
Print Publication Date:
15 Mar 1986
Keywords:
BOOK; deficit; government; country; GDP ratio

Abstract

This part of the study serves as a background to the comparative analysis in Part I. It traces some of the prominent features of fiscal developments in the 1970s and early 1980s in 13 of the smaller industrial countries.1

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Cover Fiscal Policy in the Smaller Industrial Countries, 1972-82
Fiscal Policy in the Smaller Industrial Countries, 1972-82
ISBN:
9780939934539
Publication Date:
15 Mar 1986
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9780939934539.071
Pages:
247

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