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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies of the Euro Area: The Euro Area Stability Programs

May 11, 2000

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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies of the Euro Area: The Euro Area Stability Programs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This report describes the monetary and exchange rate policies of the euro area and the euro area stability programs. The Stability and Growth Pact presents annual stability programs (SPs), which outlines the medium-term fiscal objectives. The paper provides a preliminary review of the SPs, assesses the previous fiscal developments, and analyzes the medium-term prospects implied by the new SPs. The study describes the revised stability program and also the past and prospective fiscal adjustment in the euro area as a whole and at the disaggregated level.

Subject: Debt reduction, Expenditure, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Public debt

Keywords: Aggregate debt-to-GDP ratio, Area country, CR, Debt, Debt ratio, Deficit, Euro, Euro area, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal stance, ISCR, Ratio, Reduction target, Revenue ratio, Stability program

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2000/063

  • Stock No:

    1EUREA0022000

  • ISBN:

    9781451812916

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685