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Pavlina R. Tcherneva — Three Lessons from Government Spending and the Post-Pandemic Recovery

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The central lesson of the COVID-19 fiscal response is that money is not scarce. Without delay, governments around the world appropriated budgets that dwarfed any other postwar crisis policy. In 2020, Japan passed a stimulus package equal to 54.8 percent of GDP, while in the U.S., it was equivalent to 26.9 percent and in Canada to 20.1 percent. Italy, France, and Germany spent 10.1, 10.4, and 10.7 percent of GDP, respectively (Dziedzicki et al. 2021).…Download file at link.EDI Resources DatabaseWP 01 Pavlina R. Tcherneva Three Lessons from Government Spending and the Post-Pandemic RecoveryPavlina R. Tcherneva. Bard College and Economic Democracy

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The central lesson of the COVID-19 fiscal response is that money is not scarce. Without delay, governments around the world appropriated budgets that dwarfed any other postwar crisis policy. In 2020, Japan passed a stimulus package equal to 54.8 percent of GDP, while in the U.S., it was equivalent to 26.9 percent and in Canada to 20.1 percent. Italy, France, and Germany spent 10.1, 10.4, and 10.7 percent of GDP, respectively (Dziedzicki et al. 2021).…
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EDI Resources Database
WP 01 Pavlina R. Tcherneva Three Lessons from Government Spending and the Post-Pandemic Recovery
Pavlina R. Tcherneva. Bard College and Economic Democracy Initiative
https://edi.bard.edu/research/notes/details/?id=984&prefurl=wp-01-tcherneva-three-lessons-from-government-spending-and-the-post-pandemic-recovery


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