OECD Economic Surveys [electronic resource] : Belgium 2001
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic review of Belgium's economy includes special features on progress in structural reform and encouraging environmentally sustainable growth.
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""Table of contents""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""I. Recent trends and prospects""; ""Overview""; ""A broadly based expansionâ€?""; ""Table 1.  Macroeconomic performance at a glance""; ""Figure 1.  The business cycle in Belgium and in the euro area""; ""â€? with improving labour market outcomesâ€?""; ""Table 2.  Employment and special labour market programmes""; ""Figure 2.  Unemployment rates: an international comparison""; ""Figure 3.  Vacancy rates""; ""â€? and relatively few inflationary tensions""; ""Figure 4.  International cost competitiveness""
""Figure 5.  Consumer prices""""A comparison of two cycles""; ""Figure 6.  Comparison of two business cycles""; ""Short-term prospects""; ""Table 3.  Short-term projections""; ""II. Macroeconomic policies""; ""Monetary conditions""; ""Figure 7.  Overview of monetary conditions""; ""Budgetary policy""; ""Fiscal consolidation in perspective""; ""Table 4.  General government budget""; ""Figure 8.  Public finances in Belgium and the European Union""; ""Figure 9.  General-government public finances""; ""Table 5.  Fiscal consolidation since 1992""
""Box 1.  Public finance in the Belgian institutional context""""Table 6.  Budget structure""; ""Figure 10.  Selected public-expenditure items""; ""Public finance since EMU""; ""The first stability programme""; ""The 1999 Budget""; ""The second stability programme""; ""The 2000 Budget""; ""The multi-annual budgetary programme 2001-05""; ""Table 7.  The multi-annual budgetary programme 2001-05""; ""The income tax reform""; ""III. Progress in structural reform""; ""Introduction""; ""Overview of the economic programme of the new government""; ""The labour market""
""Current conditions in the labour market""""Figure 11.  Employment rates, 1999""; ""Figure 12.  Old unemployed and early retirement programmes""; ""Table 8.  Unemployment rates in selected countries, 1999""; ""Figure 13. Incidence of long-term unemployment""; ""Figure 14.  Labour market mismatch""; ""Figure 15. Unemployment benefit replacement rates""; ""Figure 16.  Average tax wedge on labour, 1999""; ""Figure 17.  Tax rates on labour income in Belgium and other OECD countries""; ""Table 9.  Employment and non-employment""; ""Wage and labour cost flexibility""
""Employment security provision and work-time flexibility""""Figure 18.  Employment protection legislation""; ""Unemployment and related benefit systems""; ""Active labour market policies""; ""Figure 19.  Public spending on labour market measures""; ""Product markets""; ""Improving the way product markets operate""; ""Figure 20.  Product market regulation""; ""Product market competition""; ""Increasing the openness of specific markets""; ""The creation and diffusion of technological know-how""; ""Financial markets""; ""The banking sector""; ""The stock market""; ""Pension funds""
""Modification of the regulatory framework""
This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic review of Belgium's economy includes special features on progress in structural reform and encouraging environmentally sustainable growth.
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