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  "title": "Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This paper provides a background on the key policy challenges for Slovenia in the euro zone. Then, it assesses the discretionary scope to adjust spending and proposes initial steps to enhance budget flexibility so that fiscal adjustment can be targeted on relatively inefficient spending.",
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      "heading": "Background and key policy challenges",
      "content": "- Provides a background on the key policy challenges for Slovenia in the euro zone.\n- Identifies areas of substantive policy focus: Aging; Expenditure; Health care spending; Labor; Pension spending; Pensions; Population and demographics; Retirement; Wages."
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      "heading": "Fiscal adjustment scope and budget flexibility",
      "content": "- Assesses the discretionary scope to adjust spending.\n- Proposes initial steps to enhance budget flexibility so that fiscal adjustment can be targeted on relatively inefficient spending.\n- Subject focus includes: expenditure reform, pension base, productivity growth, and trade specialization pattern."
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      "heading": "Long-term fiscal sustainability",
      "content": "- Discusses the long-term fiscal sustainability position of Slovenia using a generational accounting framework."
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      "heading": "Pension system and retirement incentives",
      "content": "- Reports a simulation of retirement incentives suggesting the pension system will encourage individuals to retire earlier than the statutory full pensionable age.\n- Notes that these incentives are stronger for low-income earners."
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      "content": "- Publication title: Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues\n- Publication date: July 10, 2006\n- Series: Country Report No. 2006/250\n- Issue: 250\n- Volume: 2006\n- Pages: 111\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835786.002\n- ISBN: 9781451835786\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Stock No: 1SVNEA2006002\n- Format noted on landing page: PDF available\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 250 (2006).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/250; June 13, 2006\n  - Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/250; June 13, 2006 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/250; June 13, 2006 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: July 10, 2006",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835786.002",
    "Provides a background on the key policy challenges for Slovenia in the euro zone.",
    "Identifies areas of substantive policy focus: Aging; Expenditure; Health care spending; Labor; Pension spending; Pensions; Population and demographics; Retirement; Wages.",
    "Assesses the discretionary scope to adjust spending.",
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    "Subject focus includes: expenditure reform, pension base, productivity growth, and trade specialization pattern.",
    "Discusses the long-term fiscal sustainability position of Slovenia using a generational accounting framework.",
    "Reports a simulation of retirement incentives suggesting the pension system will encourage individuals to retire earlier than the statutory full pensionable age.",
    "Notes that these incentives are stronger for low-income earners.",
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    "Publication date: July 10, 2006",
    "Series: Country Report No. 2006/250",
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    "Pages: 111",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835786.002",
    "ISBN: 9781451835786",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "Stock No: 1SVNEA2006002",
    "Format noted on landing page: PDF available",
    "**Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/250; June 13, 2006**"
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