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The 23 pages that link to Government debt, each with the reason it gives.

• Fiscal policyRelated: Budget deficits can add to debt, shaping future financing choices.

• AusterityRelated: Austerity is often justified as a way to stabilize debt relative to the economy.

• Automatic StabilizerRelated: Temporary deficits from stabilizer responses add to borrowing needs.

• Intergenerational equityRelated: Borrowing can shift costs to future taxpayers, though it can also finance assets they inherit.

• Public financeRelated: Borrowing finances deficits and shifts some fiscal costs across time.

• Sovereign debtNarrower topic: Sovereign debt is the national-government component of public debt.

• War economyRelated: Borrowing can fund mobilization while leaving large repayment obligations after fighting ends.

• Infrastructure investmentRelated: Publicly financed infrastructure can improve services while adding to government borrowing.

• Bills of exchangeRelated: Governments and public institutions used bills to raise or move funds.

• Crowding outRelated: Debt-financed spending can sustain borrowing pressure that contributes to crowding out.

• DebtBroader topic: Public borrowing finances spending when revenues do not cover expenditures.

• Economic policyRelated: Repeated deficits can expand debt and shape future fiscal choices.

• Government bondNarrower topic: Government bonds make up a large share of many countries’ public debt.

• COVID-19 recessionRelated: Large emergency spending and falling revenues increased government borrowing.

• Debt sustainabilityNarrower topic: Public debt is the stock whose repayment capacity the sovereign sustainability assessment evaluates.

• Ricardian equivalenceRelated: Debt is the alternative financing instrument whose neutrality the proposition examines.

• Drago DoctrineRelated: The doctrine addresses whether unpaid government obligations permit coercive enforcement.

• Bond marketNarrower topic: Government bond issuance is a principal way states finance public debt.

• Fiscal conservatismRelated: Restraining the accumulation of public debt is one of the outlook’s central aims.

• Government budgetRelated: Borrowing can finance deficits and adds debt-service costs to later budgets.

• Trickle-down economicsRelated: Tax cuts without offsetting spending reductions can increase borrowing when growth does not replace lost revenue.

• Infrastructure investment (public finance)Related: Borrowing can finance investment but also adds repayment and interest obligations.

• Olivier BlanchardRelated: His work addresses how interest rates and growth affect the costs of public debt.