OECD Economic Surveys [electronic resource] : Portugal 2001
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic economic review of Portugal includes special features on the tax system and on structural reform.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Table of contents""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""I. Economic expansion: trends and prospects""; ""Overview""; ""Figure 1.  Real GDP development compared""; ""Table 1.  Macroeconomic performance at a glance""; ""Economic activity remained buoyant in 2000""; ""Figure 2.  Contribution to real GDP growth""; ""Table 2.  Recent trends""; ""Household demand slowedâ€?""; ""â€? while corporate investment was still strong""; ""Table 3.  Aggregate saving and investment""; ""Growth was rich in jobs and the unemployment rate fell to a historic low""; ""Figure 3.  Employment at a glance""
""Table 4.  Labour-market indicators""""The revival of underlying inflation has been significant""; ""Figure 4.  Inflation developments""; ""Table 5.  Wages and labour costs""; ""The external position has worsened""; ""Erosion of competitiveness and export performance""; ""Figure 5.  International competitiveness and trade outcomes""; ""Table 6.  Change in the trade specialisation of Portugal""; ""Deteriorating trade balance""; ""Figure 6.  Foreign trade and the current account""; ""Table 7.  Current account balance""; ""Large capital inflow but weak net foreign direct investment""
""Table 8.  Summary balance of payments""""Forces at work and short-term outlook""; ""The tightening of monetary conditions was limited in 2000""; ""Figure 7.  Interest rates""; ""Figure 8.  Monetary conditions""; ""The outlook is favourableâ€?""; ""â€? but risks are attached to prices and wages and the large external deficit""; ""II. Issues in fiscal policy""; ""Introduction""; ""Figure 9.  Fiscal indicators""; ""Figure 10.  Contribution to the deficit reduction, 1995-2004""; ""Budgetary developments 1999-2001""; ""The 1999 outturn""; ""Table 9.  General government financial accounts""
""Table 10.  Revenues and expenditure at different levels of the general government""""Table 11.  State tax receipts""; ""Table 12.  State expenditure""; ""The 2000 budget: increasing implementation difficulties""; ""Box 1.  Safeguard clauses on Portuguese budgets""; ""The 2001 budget: a further increase in tax pressure""; ""Medium-term budget strategy""; ""The Stability and Growth Programme""; ""Table 13.  The Stability and Growth Programme""; ""Public debt and debt management""; ""Figure 11.  Public debt and its servicing costs""; ""Figure 12.  Government bond yield differentials""
""Sources of spending pressures in the medium-term""""Table 14.  Structure of general government expenditure in OECD countries""; ""Figure 13.  State expenditures by main aggregate""; ""The public sector payroll""; ""Figure 14.  General government employment and wage bill in OECD countries""; ""Figure 15.  The growth of the public sector wage bill""; ""Figure 16.  Civil servantsâ€? social security scheme""; ""The general social security system""; ""Figure 17.  Old-age dependency ratio""; ""The health sector""; ""Table 15.  Expenditure on health care""
""Figure 18.  Indicators of health outcomes""
This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic economic review of Portugal includes special features on the tax system and on structural reform.
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