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  "title": "Long-Term Tendencies in Budget Deficits and Debt",
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      "content": "- Working Paper purpose: to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience.\n- Annual output: Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year.\n- Topic coverage: balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.\n- Note on representation: \"This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate.\""
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      "heading": "Authors, presentation, and provenance",
      "content": "- Authors: Michael Mussa, Paul R Masson\n- Presentation: Paper was presented at a symposium, \"Budget Deficits and Debt: Issues and Options,\" held at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on September 1-2, 1995, and sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.\n- Publication date: December 1, 1995\n- Series: Working Paper No. 1995/128\n- Issue: 128\n- Volume: 1995"
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      "content": "- Subject: Expenditure, Government debt management, Health care spending, Inflation, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)\n- Keywords: Asia and Pacific, budget deficit, central government, debt accumulation, Eastern Europe, federal deficit, GDP ratio, government benefit, government debt, Government debt management, government indebtedness, government policy, government spending, Health care spending, industrial country, Inflation, Middle East, real value, Western Hemisphere, WP"
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      "content": "- Related institutional link: United States and the IMF\n- eLibrary: \"Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats.\"\n- Outreach: IMF Publications Newsletter available; \"Latest economic research and insights delivered to your inbox each month.\"\n\nIMF Working Paper No. 1995/128, \"Long-Term Tendencies in Budget Deficits and Debt\" by Michael Mussa and Paul R Masson (December 1, 1995).\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/30/long-term-tendencies-in-budget-deficits-and-debt-1957"
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    "Publication date: December 1, 1995",
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    "Subject: Expenditure, Government debt management, Health care spending, Inflation, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)",
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