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Smart Fiscal Consolidation: Achieving Sustainable Public Finances and Growth

10 July 2013

Jürgen Matthes

Jürgen Matthes, co-author of a new CES study on public finances and growth talks about how to counter the dangers of self-defeating austerity and the four objectives that have to be taken into consideration when implementing smart fiscal consolidation measures.

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