Download or read book Greece written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issue paper provides an overview of the public pension system in Greece, and of prospective pension-related spending pressures. The paper reviews the structure of Greece’s pension system and compares some basic parameters of the Greek pension system with those of other European Union economies. It provides an overview of demographic projections for Greece in an international context. The paper also examines the sensitivity of the expenditure projections to variations in demographic and macroeconomic assumptions, including those relating to the rate of productivity growth.