Authors:

  • Alberto Alesina

Excerpt

Climbing out of Debt. Alberto Alesina, March 2018, Paper, "Almost a decade after the onset of the global financial crisis, national debt in advanced economies remains near its highest level since World War II, averaging 104 percent of GDP. In Japan, the ratio is 240 percent and in Greece almost 185 percent. In Italy and Portugal, debt exceeds 120 percent of GDP." Link