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Aging in the Asian “Tigers” : Challenges for Fiscal Policy / Peter Heller.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Heller, Peter.
- Series:
- IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/143
- IMF Working Papers
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (55 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The paper assesses the government expenditure effects from changing demographics in the Asian “Tiger” economies through 2050. With some exceptions, their limited social insurance commitments initially suggest that aging populations may not adversely affect fiscal balances. Yet for all the Tigers, changing illness patterns and medical modernization may combine with demographics to intensify budgetary pressures. The paper notes the implications of the Tigers’ reliance on private sector pension and medical insurance systems; the need for an active public role; and the complications for fiscal analysis when private sector instruments are used, in a mandatory way, as public policy instruments.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613803825
- 9781462360987
- 146236098X
- 9781452718934
- 1452718938
- 9781282110946
- 1282110942
- 9781451901481
- 1451901488
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