ERD WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 25 ECONOMICS AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT Revisiting Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia: What Do Subnational Data Show? Arsenio M. Balisacan Ernesto M. Pernia Abuzar Asra October 2002 Asian Development Bank ERD Working Paper No. 25 REVISITING GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN INDONESIA: WHAT DO SUBNATIONAL DATA SHOW? Arsenio M. Balisacan Ernesto M. Pernia Abuzar Asra October 2002 Arsenio M. Balisacan is Professor of Economics at the
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Was the fiscal crisis unequivocally Greece’s fault? To blame the whole eurozone fiscal crisis on the Greek economy would be a mistake‚ nonetheless it had a major role in the magnitude of the situation by emphasizing the weight and importance of this crisis. The understatement of the gravity of their public debt came up when the global financial crisis started in 2008‚ at that point the greek economy started to crash having a snow ball effect on the rest of the zone. The weight of Greece on the
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Faineant Fiscalism At this moment‚ the national debt exceeds $18.8 trillion (U.S. Debt Clock). The national debt is the amount of money that the federal government owes to citizens‚ companies‚ and other governments. As time passes‚ this disaster will only worsen. The amount owed per person will skyrocket in the lives of the current youth generation. This issue is extremely imperative because if left alone‚ there will be economic conditions so horrible in the future that it will be detrimental to
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National debt of the United States of America. National debt or public debt is the debt owed by a central government. The debt is sold in the form of securities to domestic or foreign investors‚ such as corporations and other countries governments. U.S. securities issued include Treasury bills‚ notes and U.S. savings bonds. The amount of money that the federal government of the USA owes to its creditors now tops $15.23 trillion. It means that every man‚ woman or child debt over than $45‚000. The
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country that has had a current account deficit for over 50 years. Furthermore‚ forecasts on this current account deficit tend to show that if there is no increase of international competitiveness and decrease of reliance of overseas capital goods‚ the situation will keep on getting worse. Nevertheless‚ if a multinational company wants to invest in a country that tends to have a current account deficit‚ it must bear in mind that one of the ways to decrease this deficit is to decrease imports‚ or to increase
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR For Greece’s Economy‚ Geography Was Destiny By ROBERT D. KAPLAN Published: April 24‚ 2010 THE debt crisis that caused Greece to ask for an international bailout on Friday has been attributed to many things‚ all economic: Greece’s budget deficits‚ its lack of transparency and its over-the-top corruption‚ symbolized by the words “fakelaki‚” for envelopes containing bribes‚ and “rousfeti‚” political favors. But there is a deeper cause for the Greek crisis that no one dares mention
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Ms. Henderson English 201 April 23‚ 2013 The Shackles of Student Debt? In this article‚ “A Lifetime of Student Debt‚” Robin Wilson interprets the different views on taking out loans for college students. The recent worry has been that taking out student loans are “threatening the financial future of today’s college students” (Wilson 256). However‚ recent studies has shown that one-third of college students will have no debt after their academic experience. College student nowadays are willing
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Clarion University of Pennsylvania‚ Clarion‚ Pennsylvania THE IMPACT OF EXTERNAL DEBT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA Folorunso S. Ayadi University of Lagos Felix O. Ayadi Texas Southern University Abstract This paper investigates the impact of the huge external debt‚ with its servicing requirements‚ on economic growth of the Nigerian and South African economies. The external debts of Nigeria and South Africa are analyzed in a new context utilizing traditional
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student loan debt of over $20‚000. The source of this debt is not only for tuition fees‚ but also credit card payments as well. It is likely that after graduating from college‚ a person would spend a good portion of their life paying off that debt. The average cost of attending college and university has not only increased‚ but so has living costs. With living being so costly‚ it is natural to seek to do higher paying jobs. However‚ just paying for tuition can make a person deep in debt. There are
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Chandra‚ Subscriptions and Orders Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data James‚ Harold. Monetary and fiscal unification in nineteenth-century Germany : what can Kohl learn from Bismarck? / Harold James. p. cm. — (Essays in international finance ; no. 202) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-88165-109-5 1. Monetary policy—Germany—History—19th century. 2. Fiscal policy—Germany— History—19th century. 3. Monetary unions. I. Title. II. Series. HG136.P7 no. 202 [HG998] 332
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