Fiscal Challenges of Population Aging in Brazil /

In recent decades, population has been aging fast in Brazil while old age pensions and healthrelated spending have increased. As the population ages, the spending trend threaten to reach unsustainable levels absent reforms. Increasing the retirement age is key, but by itself will not provide suffici...

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主要作者: Cuevas, Alfredo
其他作者: Karpowicz, Izabela, Mulas-Granados, Carlos, Soto, Mauricio
格式: 杂志
语言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
丛编:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/099
在线阅读:Full text available on IMF
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