IMF Engagement on Pension Issues in Surveillance and Program Work.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is increasingly involved in offering policy advice on public pension issues to member countries. Public pension spending is important from both fiscal and welfare perspectives. Pension policy and its reforms can have significant fiscal and distribution implicati...

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Tác giả của công ty: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
Loạt:Technical Notes and Manuals; Technical Notes and Manuals ; No. 2022/004
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Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF
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