Belgium: Selected Issues

February 27, 2004

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Belgium: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 27, 2024

Summary

Belgium has effected a remarkable fiscal adjustment, best illustrated by the decline in its public debt. While benefiting from an appreciable decline in interest rates, most of the underlying consolidation reflected a considerable increase in the tax burden, one of the highest in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. This paper analyzes the social transfer system in Belgium. Belgium has a very accessible and equitable health care system. The system is characterized by high input levels and service volumes.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Labor, Unemployment

Keywords: Belgium, CR, D. employment Policy, Employment, Employment rate, Global, Growth norm, Health care, Health care spending, Health spending, ISCR, System performance, Unemployment, Wage

Publication Details

Pages:

58
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2004/048
Stock No:

1BELEA0022004
ISBN:

9781451803198
ISSN:

1934-7685

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