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Share of the budget taken up by annual debt repayment. Higher means the budget is more constrained by debt.
Source: MIC — Key Fiscal Indicators of Municipalities (Local Public Finance Survey)
▲ The top 5 prefectures are tinted sky, ▼ the bottom 5 amber — just enough colour to follow the two ends of the “desirable direction.”
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