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Distributional Consequences of Fiscal Consolidation and the Role of Fiscal Policy: What Do the Data Say?

Author/Editor: Jaejoon Woo, Elva Bova, Tidiane Kinda, Yuanyan Sophia Zhang.

Release Date:September, 2013

The 2007-09 Great Recession has led to an unprecedented increase in public debt in many countries, triggering substantial fiscal adjustments. What are the distributional consequences of fiscal more...



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The Puzzle of Persistently Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials : Financial Repression or Income Catch-Up?

Author/Editor: Anna Shabunina, Julio Escolano, Jaejoon Woo.

Release Date:November, 2011

The interest rate-growth differential (IRGD) shows a marked correlation with GDP per capita. It has been on average around 1 percentage point for large advanced economies during 1999-2008; but below more...



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Public Debt and Growth

Author/Editor: Jaejoon Woo, Manmohan S Kumar.

Release Date:July, 2010

This paper explores the impact of high public debt on long-run economic growth. The analysis, based on a panel of advanced and emerging economies over almost four decades, takes into account a broad more...



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Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China

Author/Editor: Emanuele Baldacci, Ding Ding, David Coady, Giovanni Callegari, Pietro Tommasino, Jaejoon Woo, Manmohan S. Kumar.

Release Date:March, 2010

This paper shows that increasing government social expenditures can make a substantive contribution to increasing household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the more...



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