Model card
- Purpose
- Show how much room governments have to respond to shocks, and how quickly it can narrow.
- Inputs
- Public debt and its composition
- Interest burden
- Primary balance
- Growth and financing conditions
- Method
- Gap between current and debt-stabilizing primary balance, adjusted for financing conditions and shock exposure.
- Outputs
- Fiscal space reading by country
- Sensitivity to growth and interest-rate shocks
- Validation
- Methodology under review; comparisons with established measures planned.
- Limitations
- Depends on the timeliness of public-finance data.
- Shock adjustments are simplified in this version.
Version history
- v0.1October 2026Specification.