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Argentina: Debt and Macroeconomic Instability

Rudiger Dornbusch, Juan Carlos de Pablo

NBER Working Paper No. 2378 (Also Reprint No. r1121)*
Issued in February 1989
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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.

*Published: This paper was subsequently published as Debt and Macroeconomic Instability in Argentina, Rudiger Dornbusch, Juan Carlos de Pablo, in NBER book Developing Country Debt and the World Economy (1989)

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