IMF Staff Country Reports

Italy: Selected Issues

November 13, 2003

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Italy: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed September 18, 2024

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.

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

Keywords: Aging, Chapter II, CR, Europe, Inflation, Inflation differential, ISCR, Labor market, Pension, Pension expenditure, Pension spending, Pension system, Pensions, PPP GDP, Real GDP, Retirement

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    87

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2003/352

  • Stock No:

    1ITAEA0022003

  • ISBN:

    9781451819816

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685