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This paper discusses the analytical basis for facilitating green public investment under the Stability and Growth Pact fiscal rules. It concludes that additional public debt created by deficit-financed green public investment is likely to increase fiscal sustainability risks. However, such additional risks could be justified to avoid the economic damages (which would also have long run consequences for public finances) arising in the absence of sufficient green public investment. Tre trade off could ...

Global Imbalances and Global Governance

Uitgebreide analyse 14-01-2011

This compilation of briefing papers was written by two members of the expert panel to the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis. Its aim is to support the committee discussions on key questions arising from the crisis and thus feed into the preparations of the final report. The briefing papers outline the role of the IMF, the FSB and the G20 transatlantic dialogue as well as briefly discussing the political implications of a "Europe speaking with one voice".

This note describes the budgetary and institutional aspects of the EUR 60 billion European financial stabilisation mechanism, which forms part of the EUR 750 billion package of measures designed to preserve financial stability in Europe adopted on 9 May 2010.

With the end of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing and the removal of all textiles and clothing quotas on 1 January 2005, the characteristics of global textile production patterns and trade flows will be substantially redesigned. This paper aims at evaluating the qualitative and quantitative impact of the removal of quotas by assessing the prospects for textile- and clothing-producing countries, as well as producers and consumers in the EU. The paper also takes account of linkages with other ...