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Thailand Financial Sector Assessment Program : Funded Pension System
World Bank Group - 2019
productivity growth. While these reforms are needed, private pensions can also play a role inimproving retirement income for … savings for retirement. This note also addresses the challenges of the private, funded system and proposes policy … recommendations for increasing coverage, improving efficiency, and delivering sustainable retirement income in the payout phase. This …
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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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The Challenge of Public Pension Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies
International Monetary Fund - 2011
address future pension spending pressures in the advanced and emerging economies. These reforms-mainly increasing retirement …
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Pension Reform in Belgium
International Monetary Fund - 1996
increasing the mandatory retirement age is discussed. We also calculate rates of return on the participation in the Belgian …
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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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Brazil; Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This Selected Issues Paper discusses the macroeconomic implications of pension reforms in Brazil. It assesses empirically the relationship between fiscal policy and the real effective exchange rate in emerging markets and draws policy implications. It reviews the current status of local capital...
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Japan; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Japan has a universal public pension system. Social security spending is a key fiscal policy challenge in Japan. The 2004 pension reforms have increased the ratio of the government subsidy to the basic pension benefit. Three reform measures are necessary to improve pension finances: an increase...
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Russian Federation; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Selected Issues paper for the Russian Federation discusses existing empirical efforts to measure the determinants of cross-country financial integration. Empirical studies that have adopted the gravity-model framework have found that it is generally successful in explaining bilateral...
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Netherlands; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1996
This Selected Issues paper examines the long-term issues with pension expenditures in the Netherlands. The paper highlights that the public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage. The minimum wage and public pensions thus move in lock-step; they are...
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Colombia; 2002 Article IV Consultation and Request for Stand-By Arrangement—Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Dis...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This paper examines Colombia’s 2002 Article IV Consultation and Request for Stand-By Arrangement. The economic situation worsened in the first half of 2002. Economic activity has remained sluggish, and the fiscal consolidation has gone off-track. Exacerbated by increased contagion from...
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