Planning paper 117 - Vingt ans de politique de soutenabilité des finances publiques belges - D’une stratégie de préfinancement des coûts du vieillissement à une politique de réformes du modèle socio-économique

Planning paper 117 - Twintig jaar beleid rond houdbare Belgische overheidsfinanciën - Van een strategie gericht op de voorfinanciering van vergrijzingskosten naar een beleid van hervormingen van het socio-economisch model

Frédérique Denil, Vincent Frogneux and Michel Saintrain

Planning Papers from Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium

Abstract: The Ageing fund, which was set up in 2001 as an instrument to ensure the long-term sustainability of public finances, was abolished in 2016. Its abolition symbolises the transition from a strategy of pre-funding the budgetary cost of ageing, which dominated in the early 2000s, to a strategy based mainly on reforms to the socioeconomic model. The latter was initiated after the global financial crisis and has been firmly stepped up in recent years. This Planning Paper describes the economic and institutional factors behind the shift in sustainability policy, as well as the role of the various stakeholders: the governments of course, but also the High Council of Finance, the European authorities and the Federal Planning Bureau, which has produced long-term analyses and assessments over the past 25 years that have both reflected and helped to shape the pursued policy.

JEL-codes: H5 H6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02-28
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