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Italy Selected Issues

The Selected Issues paper is focused on policies to secure strong growth and safeguard fiscal sustainability. The paper analyzes the reasons behind Italy's persistent inflation differential vis-a-vis the euro area. It reviews Italy's large regional imbalances through a catch-up in income l...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2003
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Population & Demography
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: Infrastructures
Inflation
Private Pensions
Pension Spending
Labour
Social Security And Public Pensions
Public Finance & Taxation
Nonwage Labor Costs And Benefits
Deflation
Other Public Investment And Capital Stock
Aging
Population Aging
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Labor
Population And Demographics
Expenditure
Price Level
Retirement
Demography
Expenditures, Public
Pensions
Prices
Macroeconomics
Public Finance
Income Economics
Production And Operations Management
Italy
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The Selected Issues paper is focused on policies to secure strong growth and safeguard fiscal sustainability. The paper analyzes the reasons behind Italy's persistent inflation differential vis-a-vis the euro area. It reviews Italy's large regional imbalances through a catch-up in income levels and estimates a growth model using panel data for Italian regions to determine the impact of a number of factors in addition to convergence forces. It also focuses on fiscal sustainability and reviews the case for additional pension reform steps in Italy
Physical Description:87 pages
ISBN:9781451819816

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