Raphael Espinoza is an Economist in the Research Department (Systemic Issues Division) at the IMF. His research focus is on development macroeconomics, international macroeconomics/international finance, and asset pricing. He is currently a member of the Spain mission team, and previously he worked on the Dominican Republic (under an IMF program), Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. Before joining the IMF, he was an Economist at the ECB, focusing on the US economy, and he worked on fiscal policy at the French Treasury.
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Don’t sweat the debt if fiscal space is ample
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