Greece: Selected Issues
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Summary:
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix presents a number of studies designed to probe in more depth issues of fiscal adjustment, the public sector’s creditworthiness as judged by foreign lenders, and the banking system in Greece. The paper highlights that fiscal adjustment in Greece has followed a gradual path, relying to a significant extent on revenue enhancement and eschewing primary expenditure reduction. The paper also examines the evolution and tax determinants of the most widely followed indicator of the health and competitiveness of a banking system—the lending-deposit spread.
Series:
Country Report No. 1999/138
Subject:
Budget planning and preparation Financial services Financial statements Inflation Prices Production Productivity Public financial management (PFM) Real interest rates
Notes:
Contains Fiscal Transparency: An Experimental Report.
English
Publication Date:
December 10, 1999
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451816129/1934-7685
Stock No:
1GRCEA0021999
Pages:
113
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