The IMF warned earlier this week that governments around the world had systematically underestimated the damage done to growth by austerity.
Hetta kemur eftir nýggjasta frágreiðingin hjá IMF hevur staðfest, at kontraktivur finanspolitikkur hevur tálmað búskaparvøksturin væl meira enn væntað var:
Activity over the past few years has disappointed more in economies with more aggressive fiscal consolidation plans, suggesting that fiscal multipliers used in making growth forecasts have been systematically too low. This relationship holds for different components of GDP, the unemployment rate, and forecasts made by different institutions. (s. 43)
IMF hevur staðfest, at meira kontraktivan politikk lond hava ført, meira hevur búskapurin gingið verri enn framskrivingar væntaðu. Út frá hesum kemur IMF fram til, at:
