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Thailand Financial Sector Assessment Program : Funded Pension System

World Bank Group - 2019

While Thailand's pension system is typically described as a multipillar pension scheme, its design is highly fragmented and offers adequate coverage only to a small segment of the population, including civil servants and high-income individuals. In its 2018 Article IV report, the IMF highlighted...

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The Challenge of Public Pension Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies

International Monetary Fund - 2011

This paper reviews past trends in public pension spending and provides projections for 27 advanced and 25 emerging economies over 2011-2050. In constructing these projections, the paper incorporates the impact of recent pension reforms and highlights the key assumptions underlying these...

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Towards an Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable National Pension System in Iraq

International Monetary Fund - 2024

A pension system is at the heart of social protection. By ensuring income security for older persons and other vulnerable groups, it prevents poverty, reduces inequality, and facilitates consumption smoothing. A pension system also affects the working population's labor market choices and has...

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Aging, Savings, and Pensions in the Group of Seven Countries: 1980-2025

International Monetary Fund - 1989

In the next 30-40 years, past changes in fertility and mortality will lead to a significant increase in the share of the elderly. This study suggests that these demographic trends may lead to a decline in the G-7 private savings rate after 2000, compounding the impact of social expenditure...

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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and the Federal Budget

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This paper considers the implications of the prospective aging of the U.S. population for the social security system and concludes that the large and growing cashflow surpluses of the social security trust funds should be saved to help insulate living stands against this change. A number of...

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Pension Policies in the OECD Countries : Background and Trends

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Concerns about restructuring old-age income provisions and reforming public pension schemes are an OECD-wide phenomenon. This paper highlights first the background of the reform debate. Despite the divergences in the structure of public pension schemes, the main pressures for reform are...

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Norway; 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Norwa...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

rising employment and increasing reports of labor shortages and wage drift indicate intensifying pressures. …

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Cyprus; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper explores the economic consequences of aging and its impact on long-term fiscal sustainability for Cyprus. The study analyzes the potential macroeconomic impact of different approaches to deal with the fiscal costs of aging. It goes beyond a simple quantification of the...

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Austria: 2012 Article IV Consultation; Staff Report; Informational Annex; Statement by the Staff Representative; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and St...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

Austria has relatively strong macroeconomic fundamentals, but also deep ties with the rest of the euro area. The legacy of an overly ambitious eastward financial sector expansion has created substantial challenges to its policymakers. Policies have been designed to preserve market confidence,...

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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) : Labor Market Reforms to Boost Employment and Productivity in the GCC

International Monetary Fund - 2013

spillovers to the migrant-sending countries through large remittance flows. At the same time, governments have increased public …-sector employment and have helped raise standards of living. However, the growth model has involved costs: the public-sector wage bill … is relatively high, there is limited employment of nationals in the private sector, labor productivity has declined or …

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