Social Spending in Korea : Can it Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth? /

Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea. In p...

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Prif Awdur: Elekdag, Selim
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Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Cyfres:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/250
Mynediad Ar-lein:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea. In particular, simulation results suggest that social spending which supports labor market reforms can boost longer-term growth. However, despite rapid increases recently-albeit from a low base-there is still a social spending gap relative to Korea's OECD peers. Because of several fiscal challenges in the coming decades, increases in social spending should be incremental, and would be usefully guided by a longer-term fiscal framework. 
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