Actions to lower expenditures and raise primary budget surpluses in the non-age sensitive areas of budgets are clearly seen as strengthening this fiscal position.
(2)  Fundamental changes in policy design, particularly in the health and pensions sphere, in order to contain the cost of the public sector’s social insurance commitment to the elderly population and to contain systemic cost-augmenting pressures in the medical sector; and  (3)  Measures designed to at least partially redress the influence of demographic trends on the workforce and thereby enhance growth rates and the government’s revenue potential.