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Japan; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
contributions from dependent spouses could contribute to fiscal savings. …
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Population Aging and Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability in Austria
Eskesen, Leif Lybecker - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Austria faces significant population aging. This will increase public spending on pensions, health care, and long-term care, while tax and social security revenues will fall. This paper analyzes the fiscal burden facing Austria due to aging and the policy steps necessary to address it. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263966
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Chile; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This Selected Issues paper on Chile assesses the long-term outlook of Chile’s private pension system. The paper provides an overview of Chile’s recent experience with public–private partnerships (PPPs), focusing on the design of its institutional framework. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591527
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Pension Reform, Private Saving, and the Current Account in a Small Open Economy
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The macroeconomic implications of a pension reform that substitutes a high-return fully-funded system for a low-return pay-as-you-go system are discussed in an overlapping generations, neoclassical growth model. With forward-looking individuals, a debt-financed reform worsens the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599411
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Czech Republic; Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The Czech economy has rebounded from the downturn owing to its strong fundamentals and the global recovery. Domestic demand has become self-sustaining since mid-2010. Fixed investment grew moderately in the second half of 2010, mostly on account of one-off factors. GDP has grown by 2.3 percent...
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Republic of Poland; Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Competition and Performance in the Polish Second Pillar
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This technical note for the Republic of Poland on competition and performance explains the Polish pension system and domestic capital market. Competition policies may need to be reviewed, in particular the combination of measures to maintain small pension funds operating while imposing strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243156
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Luxembourg; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244141
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Pension Reforms in Japan
Kashiwase, Kenichiro; Nozaki, Masahiro; Tokuoka, Kiichi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper analyzes various reform options for Japan’s public pension in light of large fiscal consolidation needs of the country. The most attractive option is to increase the pension eligibility age in line with high and rising life expectancy. This would have a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142039
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Would Saving U.S. Social Security Raise National Saving?
Walliser, Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1999
Analysts agree that raising national saving is one of the key objectives of social security reform in the United States. Hence, to judge the merits of proposals requires a comparison of saving responses. The paper outlines the difficulties involved in making those comparisons, which arise from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771367
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China’s Demography and its Implications
Lee, Il Houng; Qingjun, Xu; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
reassess national savings behavior, with greater prominence and more careful consideration given to the role played by changing … literature. Going further, we simulate global savings behavior based on our framework and find that China’s demographics should … decades, individual countries’ convergence toward the simulated savings pattern will be influenced by their past divergences …
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