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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618
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Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries
Keller, Christian; Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
During the transition process, many existing social sector institutions and policies were significantly eroded and their underlying character changed. As a result, they often do not redistribute to the poorest, nor generally serve the role of facilitating economic change. Social sector reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264010
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United Kingdom; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825234
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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768475
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Population Aging in Japan; Demographic Shock and Fiscal Sustainability
Mühleisen, Martin; Faruqee, Hamid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
The paper develops a general equilibrium framework to examine the economic implications of population aging in Japan … assess the impact of aging on Japan's government finances; and (ii) compare fiscal policy options with respect to their … implications of population aging in Japan. Particular attention is paid to aggregate saving behavior which is modeled on the basis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769220
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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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Aging Populations and Public Pension Schemes
Chand, Sheetal K.; Jaeger, Albert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590852
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Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands; 2004 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Statement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
The staff report for the 2004 Article IV Consultation on the Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands highlights the economic developments and policies. The economy is beginning to emerge from an extended downturn. Meanwhile, against a background of soft labor market conditions and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005598791
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Can inheritances Alleviate the Fiscal Burden of An Aging Population?
Lueth, Erik - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
With pay-as-you-go schemes in place, population aging will impose a heavy fiscal burden on young and future cohorts …, increasing the inheritance tax during the demographic transition may alleviate the fiscal burden of future generations by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599473
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Macroeconomic Impact of An Aging Population in a Highly Open Economy
Leigh, Lamin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Hong Kong SAR's population is aging rapidly. This paper concludes that, without a change in policies, aging could … workers from the Chinese mainland, would attenuate the economic impact of aging, they would not offset it fully. Aging will … window of opportunity to implement policies to lessen the impact of aging, given that the demographic effects could start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604947