## Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, July 10, 2006_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 10, 2006
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835786.002

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### Background and key policy challenges
- 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.

### Fiscal adjustment scope and budget flexibility
- Assesses the discretionary scope to adjust spending.
- Proposes initial steps to enhance budget flexibility so that fiscal adjustment can be targeted on relatively inefficient spending.
- Subject focus includes: expenditure reform, pension base, productivity growth, and trade specialization pattern.

### Long-term fiscal sustainability
- Discusses the long-term fiscal sustainability position of Slovenia using a generational accounting framework.

### Pension system and retirement incentives
- 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.

### Publication metadata and key statistics
- Publication title: Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues
- Publication date: July 10, 2006
- Series: Country Report No. 2006/250
- Issue: 250
- Volume: 2006
- 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

*International Monetary Fund. "Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 250 (2006).*

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