The long-term demographic projections have progressively raised concerns about the consequences of ageing population. To better understand those changes and measure their size,projections of social expenditure have been built and progressively refined. Confronted with a large budgetary cost of...

The aim of this paper is to present projections of public expenditure on health care and long-term care for the elderly, in view of ageing populations, undertaken by the Working Group on Ageing of the European Economic Policy Committee and presented to the ECOFIN Council in 2001. These...

Manufacturing has faced deep mutations leading to a specialisation of activities in sectors for which comparative advantages exist and to intensive research of productivity gains. Given the entry on the world market of low wages economies, the competitiveness of the Belgian industry is more than...