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By David Crowe, Jörg Haas, Valentine Millot, Łukasz Rawdanowicz and Sébastien Turban, OECD Economics Department Debates about sovereign debt sustainability… Read More »Debt sustainability and low interest rates: A word of caution
By David Crowe, Valentine Millot and Łukasz Rawdanowicz, OECD Economics Department Due to the COVID-19 crisis, sovereign debt in relation… Read More »Insights from past large and prolonged sovereign debt reductions in OECD countries
by Boris Cournede, Head of Public Finance Workstream, OECD Economics Department Most OECD countries have very large government sectors: public… Read More »How can public finance reforms boost economic growth and enhance income equality?
by Debbie Bloch, Public Economics Division, Economics Department Governments today need to balance the policy goals of boosting economic growth… Read More »Does public spending foster inclusive growth in your country?
By Orsetta Causa, OECD Economics department Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This… Read More »An empirical investigation on the drivers of income redistribution across OECD countries
By Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen, OECD Economics department Many OECD countries have been facing a prolonged period of low… Read More »Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries
Stéphanie Guichard, our guest author, is a former Economic Counsellor to Catherine L. Mann, OECD Chief Economist. Financial globalisation has… Read More »Economic research on international capital flows: where do we stand 10 years after the Global Financial Crisis started?
by Catherine L. Mann, OECD Chief Economist, OECD Economics Department The role of fiscal policy has been at the heart… Read More »Time to deploy the fiscal levers actively and wisely
by Jean Marc Fournier, Economist, Public Economics Division, OECD Economics Department Public investment benefits current as well as future generations.… Read More »Most countries have room to increase public investment
