IMF Staff Country Reports

Hungary: Selected Issues

June 5, 2002

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International Monetary Fund. "Hungary: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2002, 109 (2002), accessed 12/21/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451817867.002

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Summary

The Selected Issues paper examines policy challenges for inflation targeting in Hungary. It highlights that inflation targeting has been met with much initial success. A well-defined policy framework helped guide inflation expectations and provided an initial impetus toward resuming disinflation. The paper also focuses on the impact of aging on the public pension system. It describes the background underlying Hungary’s current pension system, and provides a review of some of the recent work assessing Hungary’s pension system viability.

Subject: Aging, Expenditure, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Labor, Monetary policy, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics, Prices

Keywords: Aging, CR, exchange rate, Inflation, Inflation targeting, ISCR, monetary policy, net, net error, net export, net interest, net wage, PAYG system, Pension spending, Pensions, retirement age