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Finance and Development, March 2018
- Editor’s Letter: The Problem with Debt
- Seizing the Moment: Good economic times offer an opportunity to tackle budget deficits
- Climbing Out of Debt: A new study offers more evidence that cutting spending is less harmful to growth than raising taxes
- Public Finance Goes Digital: Technology is reshaping how governments raise and spend money
- Point of View: The Low-Income Trap - Urgent steps are needed to end the cycle of poverty and debt
- Raising Revenue: Five country cases illustrate how best to improve tax collection
- Spreading the Wealth: Fiscal instruments can reduce inequality, but some yield short-term results while others bear fruit over the long term
- Fiscal Politics: A historic dinner meeting laid the foundations of US finances
- The Debt Web: The interwar period shows how a complex network of sovereign debt can aggravate financial crises
- People in Economics: Escape Artist
- In the Trenches: E-stonia Takes Off
- Digital Crusaders: Technology offers weapons for the battle against corruption
- Unlocking Public Wealth: Governments could do a better job managing their assets
- Bracing for the Storm: For the Caribbean, building resilience is a matter of survival
- Picture This: Learning Curve - To realize education’s promise, countries need to prioritize learning, not just schooling
- Point of View: Restoring Ethics to Economics - Modern economics should return to its roots
- Book Reviews
- Currency Notes: Fiji’s Bug Bill - The island nation pays tribute to its rich animal and plant life
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Point of View: The Low-Income Trap - Urgent steps are needed to end the cycle of poverty and debt
- International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
- Published Date:
- March 2018
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