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  "title": "Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, July 14, 2005",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper examines the scope for improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy of Serbia and Montenegro in containing the persistently large external imbalance.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Examines the scope for improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy of Serbia and Montenegro in containing the persistently large external imbalance.\n- Discusses the causes of the current problems.\n- Presents preliminary results of the projected finances of the Fund for Employees (FE).\n- Provides a description of the main parameters of the Serbian pension system."
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    {
      "heading": "Key findings and analysis",
      "content": "- The paper identifies a persistently large external imbalance as a core policy challenge.\n- Preliminary projections for the finances of the Fund for Employees (FE) are presented.\n- The authorities’ recent reform package is evaluated with preliminary estimates of its impact on FE finances.\n- The paper discusses causes of the current fiscal and external problems (specific causes are presented in the full paper)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Policy options and recommendations",
      "content": "- Suggests options for reducing the cost of pension outlays.\n- Provides preliminary estimates of how the authorities’ recent reform package would affect FE finances (detailed quantitative estimates are provided in the full paper)."
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    {
      "heading": "Pension system coverage",
      "content": "- Provides a description of the main parameters of the Serbian pension system (details and parameter values are presented in the full paper)."
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      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects: Aging, Currencies, Expenditure, Inflation, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics, Prices, Retirement\n- Keywords: Aging, company balance sheets, contribution rate, CR, Eastern Europe, enterprise, Europe, exchange rate, GDP, Global, Inflation, ISCR, Middle East, pension, Pension spending, pension system, Pensions, Retirement, SM export, South America, SSOE deficit, survivor pension, Yugoslavia\n\nSource: IMF Staff Country Report No. 2005/232, \"Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix\" (July 14, 2005).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix\n  - Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/serbia-and-montenegro-selected-issues-and-statistical-appendix-18406"
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    "Published: July 14, 2005",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451833560.002",
    "Examines the scope for improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy of Serbia and Montenegro in containing the persistently large external imbalance.",
    "Discusses the causes of the current problems.",
    "Presents preliminary results of the projected finances of the Fund for Employees (FE).",
    "Provides a description of the main parameters of the Serbian pension system.",
    "The paper identifies a persistently large external imbalance as a core policy challenge.",
    "Preliminary projections for the finances of the Fund for Employees (FE) are presented.",
    "The authorities’ recent reform package is evaluated with preliminary estimates of its impact on FE finances.",
    "The paper discusses causes of the current fiscal and external problems (specific causes are presented in the full paper).",
    "Suggests options for reducing the cost of pension outlays.",
    "Provides preliminary estimates of how the authorities’ recent reform package would affect FE finances (detailed quantitative estimates are provided in the full paper).",
    "Provides a description of the main parameters of the Serbian pension system (details and parameter values are presented in the full paper).",
    "Subjects: Aging, Currencies, Expenditure, Inflation, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics, Prices, Retirement",
    "Keywords: Aging, company balance sheets, contribution rate, CR, Eastern Europe, enterprise, Europe, exchange rate, GDP, Global, Inflation, ISCR, Middle East, pension, Pension spending, pension system, Pensions, Retirement, SM export, South America, SSOE deficit, survivor pension, Yugoslavia",
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