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Showing posts with label Japan's welfare spending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan's welfare spending. Show all posts

1/31/2012

S&P warns cuts loom for G20 nations on health costs

(Reuters) - Ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned it may downgrade "a number of highly rated" Group of 20 countries from 2015 if their governments fail to enact reforms to curb rising healthcare spending and other costs related to ageing populations.