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06 Oct 2009 10:05

Addressing the time-bomb

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Pushing up the state retirement age to 66 from 2016 won’t deal with the immediate fiscal crisis. But it will start to address the more serious long-term demographic crisis. Other European countries, whose pension systems are in even more of a mess, need to get their skates on.

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