Malta: Selected Issues

February 27, 2019

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Malta: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper assesses the marginal impact of promoting inclusive growth in Malta. The paper uses a multi-country simulation model, the IMF’s Flexible System of Global Models calibrated for Malta, is used to analyze the macroeconomic impacts of ongoing and potential future reforms. Three different policies are analyzed, namely: increasing childcare and after care benefits; extending working lives; and upskilling the labor force. The model shows that the reduction of absolute poverty has been accompanied by rising inequality. The simulation evaluates the macroeconomic impact of introducing free childcare, which is the actual government policy since 2015. Simulations show that policies that are primarily aimed at improving social inclusion also end up boosting potential output, thereby mitigating the fiscal cost of such policies in the long term. Recent declines in poverty rate can partly be ascribed to the cycle, however, recent structural reforms likely have had a significant impact on growth.

Subject: Income, Labor, Labor supply, National accounts, Population and demographics, Poverty

Keywords: Childcare services policy, CR, Global, Government policy, Income, ISCR, Labor supply, Pay, Policy, Policy experiment, Policy initiative, Policy reform, Poverty risk, Refugee, Refugee integration scenario

Publication Details

Pages:

13
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2019/069
Stock No:

1MLTEA2019002
ISBN:

9781498300629
ISSN:

1934-7685

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