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We forecast the budget surplus coming in at 12.3% of GDP in 2024 and 11.1% in 2025, narrower than the 16.5% surplus in 2023, but still among the largest in [...]

We expect the fiscal surplus to reach an equivalent of 12% of GDP in 2024, smaller than an estimated 16.3% in 2023, owing to increases in social security payments and [...]

What's happened? Slovenia's general government deficit fell to 2.5% of GDP in 2023, a better outturn than we expected owing to surpluses in local government budgets as well as in [...]

How much money are your private-equity investments making? The question is easy to answer for other asset classes, such as bonds or publicly traded stocks. All that is required is [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. The fund lost 14% [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. The fund has lost [...]

Peddling past Imagine an India without hawkers I NDIA'S VAST informal economy is both a blessing and a curse. The hundreds of millions who toil in it--without contracts, outside the [...]

Inflation and rising interest rates threaten to make many retirees much poorer C AN YOU afford to retire? The answer is much more likely to be no today than it [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. The fund has lost [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. Owing to its long [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. Owing to its long [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. Owing to its long [...]

Why private markets are likely to disappoint investors E VERYONE WHO has an investment portfolio or is in a pension scheme knows that they are exposed to the gyrations of [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. Owing to its long [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. In the face of [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. In the face of [...]

Event In early April Namibian media outlets revealed that Namibia's Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) would provide the foreign currency needed to pay off a US$500m Eurobond due in November [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulates the public finances from cyclical fluctuations. In the face of [...]

Fiscal conditions are supported by the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the country's US$1trn sovereign wealth fund, which has insulated the fiscal balance from cyclical fluctuations. In the face of [...]

Having taken the policy rate to its technical minimum of 0.5%, the Banco Central de Chile (BCCh, the central bank) is turning towards non-conventional monetary policy to support the economy, [...]

Having taken the policy rate to its technical minimum, the Banco Central de Chile (BCCh, the central bank) is now turning towards non-conventional monetary policy to support the economy, and [...]

IN 'THE BLACK ISLAND', Tintin, the quiff-sporting boy reporter, uses a plane to chase a pair of forgers flying over Scotland. As he closes in on them, they suddenly disappear [...]

Having taken the policy rate to its technical minimum, the Banco Central de Chile (BCCh, the central bank) is now turning towards non-conventional monetary policy to support the economy, and [...]

Like other European countries, Norway has announced fiscal stimulus in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, although this is much smaller than in peer economies. Total discretionary stimulus has amounted [...]

Government policy in the coming months will be focused overwhelmingly on cushioning the blow to the tourism industry and the wider economy caused by the global spread of the coronavirus. [...]

SHARE PRICES may have rallied from the depths they plumbed when the coronavirus pandemic was spreading rapidly around the world. But the S & P 500, America's main stockmarket index, [...]

The Aruban administration will continue to implement measures to improve fiscal sustainability, in co-operation with the Dutch government. A fiscal agreement with the Dutch authorities was renewed in November 2018. [...]

Household debt remains elevated, at more than 222.3% of disposable income in 2018-primarily a side-effect of continually rising house prices. However, as monetary policy grows steadily tighter, the risks to [...]

Event In early May the British telecommunications firm Vodafone signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Omani company owned by local investment funds, in preparation for the award of [...]

Aruba's small and open economy, with its narrow base, faces a growing demographic challenge and a sizeable debt burden. The government has made a start on overdue structural reforms to [...]

It costs a lot more to fund a modern retirement. Employers, workers and governments are not prepared EMPEROR AUGUSTUS came to power with the help of a private army. So [...]

Public spending carries more weight in Norway's economy than in those of other OECD countries because of the country's emphasis on redistributive policies and high-quality public services, financed by high [...]

A veteran fund manager identifies the real sources of long-term returns IN A world marked by high-frequency trading and billionaire fund managers, Jack Bogle ploughs an increasingly lonely furrow. He [...]

New rules will raise funding costs yet again IN RECENT years firms have stuffed a lot more money into their final-salary pension schemes. With a fair wind from more favourable [...]

Company pension funds are being saved from destruction FOR a lesson in how to cut pay and pensions while still appearing magnanimous, look no further than BAE Systems, a British [...]

In May 2001 Law 87-01 was passed, creating the new social security system covering pensions, health and workplace risks. The new system was introduced in 2003 after delays caused by [...]

Populations are ageing, in rich and poor countries alike. This means big trouble for governments, who need to find some way to keep their retirees out of poverty without breaking [...]

In May 2001 Law 87-01 was passed, creating the new social security system covering pensions, health and workplace risks. The new system is being introduced in 2003 after delays caused [...]

As fears grow that America's pensions rescue fund may itself need rescuing, Britain's main business organisation predicts that pension-fund deficits will damage economic growth for several years THE world's main [...]