Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

July 14, 2005

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Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed April 19, 2025

Summary

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper examines the scope for improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy of Serbia and Montenegro in containing the persistently large external imbalance. The paper discusses the causes of the current problems and presents preliminary results of the projected finances of the Fund for Employees (FE). It suggests options for reducing the cost of pension outlays, and provides preliminary estimates of the impact of the authorities’ recent reform package on the FE finances. The paper also provides a description of the main parameters of the Serbian pension system.

Subject: Aging, Currencies, Expenditure, Inflation, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics, Prices, Retirement

Keywords: Aging, Company balance sheets, Contribution rate, CR, Eastern Europe, Enterprise, Europe, Exchange rate, GDP, Global, Inflation, ISCR, Middle East, Pension, Pension spending, Pension system, Pensions, Retirement, SM export, South America, SSOE deficit, Survivor pension, Yugoslavia

Publication Details

Pages:

127
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/232
Stock No:

1SCGEA2005002
ISBN:

9781451833560
ISSN:

1934-7685

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