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Fiscal Sustainability: The Case of Eritrea

By Ayumu Yamauchi

January 1, 2004

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Ayumu Yamauchi. Fiscal Sustainability: The Case of Eritrea, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The paper examines fiscal sustainability issues for the case of Eritrea but has wider implications for addressing fiscal and debt sustainability. It begins with a formal definition and explanation of analytical sustainability indicators, followed by an assessment of the causes of fiscal deficits and their impact on the usual indicators of fiscal and external debt sustainability. The paper then goes beyond the usual analytical indicators by attempting to identify how and through which channels fiscal and other economic policies have affected the behavior of endogenous variables that in one way or another influence sustainability.

Subject: Exchange rates, External debt, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Fiscal sustainability, Foreign exchange, Public debt

Keywords: Assets and liabilities, Debt indicator, Debt stock, Endogenous response, Exchange rates, Fiscal stance, Fiscal sustainability, Gap indicator, GDP decline, GDP ratio, Inflation rate, Nominal exchange rate, Physical capital, Posited deficit objective, Private sector, Rate of exchange rate appreciation, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2004/007

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0072004

  • ISBN:

    9781451842449

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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