Argentina: Debt and Macroeconomic Instability

Rudiger Dornbusch, Juan Carlos de Pablo

NBER Working Paper No. 2378 (Also Reprint No. r1121)
Issued in February 1989
NBER Program(s):   ITI   IFM

The paper reviews the Argentine debt experience in the past ten years. The emphasis is on the interaction between relative prices, financial instability, budget .deficits, inflation and debt accumulation. A longer run perspective shows that the continuing fiscal problems have stood in the way of investment and growth.

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• Developing Country Debt and the World Economy, edited by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. ,
• Debt and Macroeconomic Instability in Argentina, Rudiger Dornbusch, Juan Carlos de Pablo, in Developing Country Debt and the World Economy, University of Chicago Press, 1989
  

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