The Pension Reform Proposal for Tunisia - the Case of the general NPSIF Scheme
Abstract
Given the results of population projection indicating an inevitable aging in the coming years for Tunisia, the general scheme of the National Pension and Social Insurance Fund (NPSIF) which operates according to a mode pay-as-you-go enters a very difficult phase. Thus, its financial results are currently in deficit and also that we perform the simulation until the year 2030 show the increase of the deficit in the case of maintenance of its current legislation. For this reason, we propose reform scenarios to alleviate the most possible deficit of the general scheme of NPSIF.
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