markets are supporting domestic demand. Unit labor cost increases and core inflation have been subdued, although rapidly …

performance and the macroeconomic implications of remittances. It then looks at the sustainability of pension systems, financial … system development, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, and ways to sustain progress in reducing inflation by strengthening the …

Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account …

This Selected Issues paper examines the long-term issues with pension expenditures in the Netherlands. The paper … highlights that the public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage. The minimum wage … and public pensions thus move in lock-step; they are both by law indexed to contract wages in the private sector. This …

In 2003, domestic and external factors in Norway slowed real GDP growth to an estimated 0.5 percent. With inflation …

the fiscal consequences of aging will require increasing the retirement age to 65 years, followed by further increases to …

Putting the pension system on a sustainable footing arguably remains the biggest challenge in Russia's economic …