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the elderly. This study suggests that these demographic trends may lead to a decline in the G-7 private savings rate after …
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operates as a tax-incentivized scheme, which allows both employers and employees to take advantage of generous tax benefits for … savings for retirement. This note also addresses the challenges of the private, funded system and proposes policy …
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The penetration level of the insurance and pension sectors in Malawi is low, but it seems adequate as compared with other countries in similar stages of development. Concentration and costs are high, the regulatory framework is outdated or inexistent and supervision is weak. An innovative pilot...
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The Icelandic government has launched a review of the tax system, with a view to improving its income redistribution … detrimental effects on employment and growth, and at removing inconsistencies with international practices. The tax measures will …. The Icelandic Corporate Index Tax would benefit from adopting financial accounting as the basis to determine taxable …
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The economic and financial crisis is affecting the fiscal accounts of virtually every country. Public sector support for the financial system, fiscal stimulus and the automatic stabilizers, as well as the revenue decline from the downturn in commodity and asset prices, are leading to sharp...
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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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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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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 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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. It examines the Greek tax ratio and structure, and places them in the EU context. It also reviews the design of the … various tax categories, and identifies the scope for further simplifying the tax system and broadening the tax base. The paper … discusses that it would be desirable to raise the tax ratio through expanding the tax base before considering raising tax rates. …
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