Switzerland: Selected Issues

June 3, 2002

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Switzerland: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 25, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines economic growth in Switzerland. It attempts to analyze whether slow growth is inescapable for Switzerland. The paper suggests that income convergence across countries contributes significantly to slow relative growth in Switzerland, but experience in several advanced industrial countries reinforces the view that slow growth is not inescapable. Higher growth will require raising total factor productivity growth, which remains low by international standards, and to a lesser extent, raising the investment rate.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Labor, Labor productivity, Pension spending, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Capital, Capital tax burden, Capital transaction tax, CR, Employment, Global, Interest income, Investment rate, ISCR, Labor productivity, Net, Pension spending, Phasing-out wealth taxes, Productivity, Productivity gain, Productivity growth, Switzerland, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

Pages:

36
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2002/107
Stock No:

1CHEEA0022002
ISBN:

9781451807240
ISSN:

1934-7685

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