News from the CRAIG
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2014
July 19. The Secretary general of the CRAIG was asked to deliver a speech during an Iftar commemorating the 40th anniversay of the legal recognition of Islam in Belgium.
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IMF, Washington, 13.02.2014. "Using a novel empirical approach and an extensive dataset developed by the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, we find no evidence of any particular debt threshold above which medium-term growth prospects are dramatically compromised. Furthermore, we find the debt trajectory can be as important as the debt level in understanding future growth prospects, since countries with high but declining debt appear to grow equally as fast as countries with lower debt. Notwithstanding this, we find some evidence that higher debt is associated with a higher degree of output volatility."
A working paper from the IMF deals with sovereign debt after the 2008 crisis.
IMF, 22 Aug. 2013 : 'This paper provides a general framework to assess the output and debt dynamics of an economy undertaking multi-year fiscal adjustment. The framework allows country-specific assumptions about the magnitude and persistence of fiscal multipliers, hysteresis effects, and endogenous financing costs. In addition to informing macro projections, the framework can also shed light on the appropriate phasing of fiscal consolidation—in particular, on whether it should be front- or back-loaded. (...)".
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