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Ageing Populations, Pension Systems and Government Budgets How Do They Affect Saving?
- Title
- Ageing Populations, Pension Systems and Government Budgets [electronic resource]: How Do They Affect Saving? / Willi Leibfritz ... [et al]
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 1995.
Available Online
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 98 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- The paper examines the effects of demographic changes on government budgets and national savings. Most OECD countries will experience a rapid ageing of the population in the future and this development will put public pensions, health care systems and government budgets in general under increasing pressure. It could also have adverse effects on national saving. In order to provide some idea of the scale and magnitude of potential future problems the paper presents a quantitative analysis of the effects of ageing populations on government budgets, on inter-generational equity and on national saving and it also discusses policy options to cope with these problems. The paper finds that getting general government fiscal positions into better shape over the next few years would enable governments to better cope with the demographic change that will occur in the first decades of the next century. Furthermore, it stresses that further increases in retirement ages could make a major ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.156
- Uniform Title
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.156.
- Subject
- Economics
- LCCN
- 10.1787/333823847807
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Title
- Ageing Populations, Pension Systems and Government Budgets [electronic resource]: How Do They Affect Saving? / Willi Leibfritz ... [et al]
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 1995.
- Series
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.156OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.156.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Economics
- Added Author
- Leibfritz, Willi.Roseveare, Deborah.Fore, Douglas.Wurzel, Eckhard.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/333823847807 doi