The Growth of public debt in Coahuila, Mexico

Nicolas Guadalupe Zuniga-Espinoza (), Celia Ruth Sainz-Lopez () and Erick Zuniga-Soto ()
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Nicolas Guadalupe Zuniga-Espinoza: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa
Celia Ruth Sainz-Lopez: Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Mexico
Erick Zuniga-Soto: Universidad Autonoma de Occidente

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2021, vol. 17, issue 1, 166-174

Abstract: The objective of this work is to show that the accelerated growth of Coahuila's public debt occurred because the local legislation failed to limit the amounts borrowed, permitting the entirety of the Unconditional Transfers (UCT), specifically the General Participation Fund (GPF), to be granted as security for the loans. The results show that during the period 2000-2016, the average annual growth in the public debt was 21%. In addition, 94.3% of the GPF was pledged as security, leaving 5.7% of this income source to meet local public spending needs. Furthermore, of the seven loans obtained in 2018 and 2019, five of them were used for refinancing purposes and the other two to address liquidity shortfalls.

Keywords: public debt; transfers; subnational governments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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