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  "title": "A Historical Public Debt Database",
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  "summary": "This paper describes the compilation of the first truly comprehensive database on gross government debt-to-GDP ratios, covering nearly the entire IMF membership (174 countries) and spanning an exceptionally long time period.",
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      "content": "- Describes the compilation of the first truly comprehensive database on gross government debt-to-GDP ratios.\n- Covers nearly the entire IMF membership: 174 countries.\n- Spans an exceptionally long time period.\n- For the most recent years, the data are linked to the IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database to facilitate regular updates.\n- Database constructed by bringing together a number of other datasets and information from original sources."
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      "heading": "Major findings and empirical patterns",
      "content": "- Discusses the evolution of debt-to-GDP ratios across country groups for several decades.\n- Documents episodes of debt spikes and reversals.\n- Identifies a pattern of negative correlation between debt and growth."
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      "heading": "Data construct and accessibility",
      "content": "- Database integrates multiple existing datasets and original-source information to produce a harmonized series of gross government debt-to-GDP ratios.\n- Recent-year linkage to the IMF WEO database enables regular updates.\n- Supplemental resources include: link to data for this title (ZIP) and a video on the Historical Public Debt Database."
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      "content": "- Subject tags: Financial crises, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Oil prices, Prices, Public debt\n- Keywords include: country, country size, debt, Debt Database, debt ratio, Debt-to-GDP, GDP, GDP data, Global, Gross Debt, Historical Debt, historical public debt database, HPDD Debt-to-GDP observation, HPDD shed, information, Oil prices, PPP GDP series, Public Debt, public debt debt ratio, WP\n\nIMF Working Paper: \"A Historical Public Debt Database\", November 1, 2010.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp10245\n  - wp10245 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp10245 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/a-historical-public-debt-database-24332"
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    "Authors: S. M. Ali Abbas, Nazim Belhocine, Asmaa A ElGanainy, Mark A Horton",
    "Published: November 1, 2010",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455209453.001",
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    "Documents episodes of debt spikes and reversals.",
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    "Supplemental resources include: link to data for this title (ZIP) and a video on the Historical Public Debt Database.",
    "Subject tags: Financial crises, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Oil prices, Prices, Public debt",
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