OECD economic surveys 2000-2001 Germany
This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic review of Germany's economy includes special features on public spending reform and structural reform.
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Paris, Cedex, France :
OECD
[2001]
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| Colección: | OECD Economic Surveys, 2001, No. 9
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009706017306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Table of contents""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""I. Recent trends and prospects""; ""Overview""; ""The economic recovery gathered pace in 1999""; ""Figure 1. Macroeconomic performance""; ""Table 1. Demand and output""; ""As export growth accelerated�""; ""Table 2. Trade by region""; ""� and domestic demand improved�""; ""Figure 2. The business climate""; ""� growth peaked in the first half of 2000""; ""Table 3. The current account of the balance of payments""; ""Strong employment growth has allowed unemployment to come down�""
- ""Figure 3. Employment and unemployment""""Figure 4. Decomposition of change in total employment""; ""Box 1. Revisions to the German labour market statistics""; ""Table 4. The German labour market""; ""� without the emergence of wage pressures""; ""Higher productivity growth and a weaker euro have further improved external competitiveness""; ""Figure 5. International competitiveness""; ""Nonetheless inflation accelerated somewhat following the boost in oil prices""; ""Figure 6. The inflation environment""
- ""Despite some increases in policy rates, monetary conditions remain conducive to growth in Germany""""Figure 7. Interest-rate developments""; ""Figure 8. Real interest rates""; ""Figure 9. Yield curves""; ""Short-term prospects and risks""; ""Growth should decelerate this year, but recover in 2002""; ""II. Fiscal policy""; ""Progress in fiscal consolidation""; ""The 1999 and 2000 budgets""; ""Table 5. Public sector financial balances""; ""Table 6. The Federal Budget""; ""Box 2. The fiscal impact of the sale of UMTS licenses""; ""The 2001 budget""
- ""Table 7. Appropriation account for general government""""Medium-term objectives""; ""Table 8. Medium-term fiscal objectives of the general government""; ""Tax reform""; ""Income and business taxation""; ""Box 3. The major components of tax reform""; ""Figure 10. Statutory income tax rates before and after reform""; ""Table 9. Statutory tax rates within the OECD""; ""Table 10. Financial effects of the 2001 income and business tax reform1""; ""Recent energy tax measures are distortionary""; ""Pension reform""; ""Figure 11. Projected evolution of the old age dependency ratio""
- ""Health reform""""Reform of the inter-governmental fiscal equalisation system""; ""Figure 12. Marginal effective burden due to financial equalisation and tax sharing""; ""III. A review of progress in structural reforms""; ""Recent labour market reforms to tackle high structural unemployment""; ""Increasing wage and labour cost flexibility""; ""Table 11. Coverage by collectively negotiated wage agreements""; ""Increasing working time flexibility and easing employment security provisions""; ""Table 12. Employment in temporary help agencies""
- ""Table 13. Utilisation of fixed-term contracts in Germany""
