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Contents

  1. All CORE Insights
  2. List of resources
  3. Highlights
  4. 1 Introduction
  5. 2 Concepts and distinctions
  6. 3 Public debt in history
  7. 4 The political economy of public debt
  8. 5 Analyzing debt dynamics
  9. 6 The unexplained part of public debt
  10. 7 How governments repay
  11. 8 And what happens when they don’t?
  12. 9 Rules and institutions for public debt management
  13. 10 Conclusion
  14. 11 Acknowledgements
  15. 12 References
  16. Glossary