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This book examines how Japan should cope with fiscal challenges, as demands on the budget from an ageing society have necessitated the reigning in of public debt and the revamp of the pension and healthcare systems. It combines insights from academic research with the views of policymakers to...
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The striking turnaround in the Netherlands' economic performance over the past decade and a half has attracted … widespread attention. Emerging from deep recession and high unemployment in the early 1980s, the economy shifted to a pace of …. However, a number of important problems remain to be tackled to further strengthen economic performance in the Netherlands …
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes France's fiscal stance using a structural stochastic model. The theoretical model features a forward-looking benevolent government that needs to decide the optimal fiscal stance given the level of public debt, the cyclical position of the economy, and...
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reduced gas reduced growth in the second quarter of 2015, without however interrupting its momentum. Unemployment is falling …
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could be shifted outward in the Netherlands. In a nutshell, we argue that significant efficiency gains could be achieved by …
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