Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues Paper

IMF Staff Country Reports, February 19, 2015

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Publication date: February 19, 2015
This Selected Issues paper examines social spending reform and fiscal savings in Slovenia.
Rising expenditure has been at the root of Slovenia’s fiscal deterioration since the onset of the crisis.
The paper explores reform options to reduce Slovenia’s social spending over the medium and long term.
It discusses key features of the pension system and analyzes the evolution of pension spending in the absence of reforms.
The paper also examines health and education spending and provides a framework to assess their efficiency relative to other countries.

Rising expenditure is identified as the primary driver of Slovenia’s fiscal deterioration since the onset of the crisis.
The paper analyzes the pension system’s key features.
The evolution of pension spending is analyzed under a no-reform scenario (i.e., pension spending trajectory in the absence of reforms).
Subject areas highlighted: Aging, Pension spending, Pensions, Retirement, Population and demographics, Solvency.

The paper examines health and education spending.
It provides a framework to assess efficiency of health and education spending relative to other countries.

The paper explores reform options aimed at reducing social spending over the medium and long term.
Reform focus areas include pension system reforms and measures to improve efficiency in health and education spending.
Related subject matters noted: Expenditure, Financial sector policy and analysis, Labor, Retirement.

Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/42; January 29, 2015
- Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/42; January 29, 2015 (Markdown version)
- Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 15/42; January 29, 2015 (PDF)