Reforming Budgetary Institutions in Latin America: The Case for a National Fiscal Council |
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Authors: | Eichengreen Barry Hausmann Ricardo Von Hagen Jürgen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, University Of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3880, USA;(2) Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA |
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Abstract: | Latin America's economies have made tremendous improvements in recent years. Following the lost decade of the 1980s, economic growth has resumed. But the fruits of this progress remain to be consolidated. The political consensus supporting reform is fragile, and the economies of the region are still susceptible to destabilizing shocks, as recent events have underscored. Even well-devised economic policy strategies can be thrown off course by disturbances. This article proposes an institutional reform—a National Fiscal Council—designed to allow Latin American countries to break out of this vicious circle. |
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Keywords: | the commons problem fiscal policy institutional reforms |
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