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This Selected Issues paper on Panama explores the current situation and trends of the Caja del Seguro Social (CSS) in Panama. The autonomy is embedded in its Organic Law, which also provides the agency with the right to have separate funds from the central government. The slowdown in economic...
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This Selected Issues paper of the United Kingdom analyzes the official projections of public pension spending and risks, as well as the strategy to increase private pension provision. It provides a comparison of stylized facts regarding business cycle developments in the three economies, and an...
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The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Program (EDPRP) was developed with the active participation and support …
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This Selected Issues paper highlights that the authorities in the Republic of Korea recognize the pension policy challenges ahead, and a first wave of reforms has already been launched. Despite the reforms to date, much remains to be done. Without further reforms, the public pension systems in...
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This Selected Issues paper attempts to quantify the impact of the demographic shift on growth and public finances in Switzerland. It examines the intertemporal consistency between current policy plans and unfunded liabilities, focusing primarily on social security, and explores policy options....
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This Selected Issues paper on Luxembourg reports that exemplary high growth rates and prudent fiscal policies provided the financial basis for the welfare system. Social expenditures in per capita terms, even adjusted for the large number of cross-border workers, rank highest among European...
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This paper reviews Mongolia’s Economic Growth Support Poverty Reduction Strategy (EGSPRS) Implementation Progress …
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Enhanced HIPC Initiative. Stronger policy implementation has helped the economic growth of the C.A.R. under the Poverty …
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This paper focuses on Senegal’s second poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP–II). It summarizes the results of the … document for growth and poverty reduction that draws legitimacy from an underlying participatory process, it sets poverty …
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note reviews Senegal’s Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP–II), and provides …€“II, covering 2006–10, builds on lessons learned during the implementation of the 2003–05 Senegal Poverty Reduction Strategy … (PRSP–I). The PRSP–II pushes the poverty reduction agenda forward so as to meet the objective of raising economic growth …
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