Cournède, Boris; Gonand, Frédéric - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
With population ageing, fiscal consolidation has become of paramount importance for euro area countries. Consolidation … can be pursued in various ways, with different effects on potential growth, which itself will be dragged down by ageing. A … pension replacement rates and repaying public debt through a lower ratio of non ageing-related outlays to GDP, c) raising the …