Tax and Pension Reform in the Czech Republic-Implications for Growth and Debt Sustainability /

The Czech Republic has embarked on an ambitious tax reform and expenditure package to bring the deficit sustainably below 3 percent, and intends to reduce the deficit to 1 percent of GDP by 2012. To address the long-term fiscal challenge due to population aging, pension reform proposals are also bei...

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Autor principal: Botman, Dennis
Outros Autores: Tuladhar, Anita
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/125
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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