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The index explains about 30 per cent of the variation in publicdeficit among the member countries during the period studied.
Finally, we calculate the fiscal stimulus as the difference between the structural publicdeficit in two consecutive years.
The publicdeficit became chronic and the treasury initially sought to finance it with bonds.
The publicdeficit was also considered, but, again, a good number of observations were missing.
To reduce the publicdeficit, total employment in the public sector has been reduced by about 180 thousand employees.
I personally think that a 3 % publicdeficit is very high.
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It has not managed to control the publicdeficit.
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