OECD Economic Surveys [electronic resource] : Germany 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 Germany's economy includes special features on public spending reform and structural reform.
Description based upon print version of record.
""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 acceleratedâ€?""; ""Table 2.  Trade by region""; ""â€? and domestic demand improvedâ€?""; ""Figure 2.  The business climate""; ""â€? 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 downâ€?""
""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""; ""â€? 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""
This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic review of Germany's economy includes special features on public spending reform and structural reform.
Germany (West) -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals.
Germany (West) -- Economic conditions.
Germany (West) -- Economic policy -- Periodicals.
Germany (West) -- Economic policy.
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