TY - BOOK ID - 84545882 TI - Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies of the Euro Area : The Euro Area Stability Programs. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2000 SN - 146233833X 1452701172 1280894857 9786613736161 1452738750 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Financial Risk Management KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Fiscal Policy KW - Debt KW - Debt Management KW - Sovereign Debt KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Finance KW - Fiscal consolidation KW - Expenditure KW - Public debt KW - Fiscal stance KW - Debt reduction KW - Fiscal policy KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Debts, Public KW - Debts, External KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84545882 AB - This report describes the monetary and exchange rate policies of the euro area and the euro area stability programs. The Stability and Growth Pact presents annual stability programs (SPs), which outlines the medium-term fiscal objectives. The paper provides a preliminary review of the SPs, assesses the previous fiscal developments, and analyzes the medium-term prospects implied by the new SPs. The study describes the revised stability program and also the past and prospective fiscal adjustment in the euro area as a whole and at the disaggregated level. ER -