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This Selected Issues paper explores the economic consequences of aging and its impact on long-term fiscal sustainability for Cyprus. The study analyzes the potential macroeconomic impact of different approaches to deal with the fiscal costs of aging. It goes beyond a simple quantification of the...
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This paper presents a technical note on Mexico’s Financial Sector Assessment Program update. The Mexican experience displays interesting characteristics that provide lessons for other countries that still need to design the decumulation phase of their newly established second pillars. The...
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it is generally successful in explaining bilateral financial flows. If the pension gap were to be financed through the …
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This Selected Issues paper on Chile assesses the long-term outlook of Chile’s private pension system. The paper …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews developments during 2001–02 in the Belarusian pension system, and discusses … potential short- and medium-term reforms needed to put pension system finances on a sustainable path. The paper presents a short … overview of demographic trends and developments in Belarus and their impact on the pension system. It discusses the financial …
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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 …
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using a generational accounting framework. A simulation of retirement incentives suggests that the pension system will …
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This paper examines Honduras’s 2005 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. In the period 1960–2000, output growth in Honduras ranked among the lowest in the region. During the 1990s, when growth recovered in the rest of Central...
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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A major element of the persistent fiscal imbalances in Guinea-Bissau is the relatively low level of revenue compared with other sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Fiscal revenues, including grants, trended downward significantly in Guinea-Bissau from 1991 through 2005, especially during the...
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