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Crowding out

Crowding out (or financial crowding out) occurs when increased government borrowing (to finance its public sector spending) causes interest rates to rise owing to the higher demand for loanable funds, which causes a reduction in private sector investment expenditure due to the higher costs of borrowing.

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