A Thrifty North and An Impecunious South: Nigeria's External Debt and the Tyranny of Political Economy
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Keywords
Nigeria; Monetary Policy; Inflation; Fiscal Policy; Debt-Laffer Curve; External Debt; Debt Service;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- H6 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
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