This report investigates the effect of population ageing on public health- and long-term care expenditures, public pensions and government finances in EU countries in the projection period 2002-50. The authors specifically consider new insights about the development of demography and health on...

Developing and low-income economies face the challenge of increasing public spending to address sizeable infrastructure and social gaps while simultaneously restoring the fiscal discipline weakened to countervail the effect of the global recession. Increasing the efficiency of social spending...

"This paper examines the efficiency and equity implications of alternative health care system financing strategies. Using data across the OECD, I find that almost all financing choices are compatible with efficiency in the delivery of health care, and that there has been no consistent and...

Developing and low-income economies face the challenge of increasing public spending to address sizeable infrastructure and social gaps while simultaneously restoring the fiscal discipline weakened to countervail the effect of the global recession. Increasing the efficiency of social spending...

Mit der Rentenreform von 1957 wurde die Dynamisierung der Renten eingeführt. Renten sollten sich im Gleichschritt mit den Löhnen entwickeln. Rentner sollten so an der Wirtschaftsentwicklung teilhaben. Mit den Rentenreformgesetzen 2001 bis 2004 wurde dieser Anspruch hinsichtlich der...