ACCRUAL BUDGETING AND FISCAL CONSOLIDATION IN THE EMU
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Accrual Budgeting and Fiscal Policy
* Marc Robinson is a European-based international consultant and trainer. This article was written when he was a senior economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund. The author gratefully acknowledges the valuable comments of Marco Cangiano, Ian Lienert, Gösta Ljungman, David Fjord Nielsen, Eivind Tandberg and participants in a seminar in the Fiscal Affairs Depa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary Economic Policy
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1074-3529,1465-7287
DOI: 10.1093/cep/20.2.193