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OECD Economic Outlook 69 - Biblioteca Hegoa

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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

Editorial .......................................................................................................................................................................... ix<br />

I. General assessment of the macroeconomic situation ................................................................... 1<br />

Overview of the current situation and prospects ...................................................................................................... 1<br />

Financial risks in a weaker world economy ............................................................................................................. 11<br />

The global implications of a weaker US economy .................................................................................................. 21<br />

Policy requirements in <strong>OECD</strong> countries .................................................................................................................. 28<br />

Appendix: The medium-term reference scenario ..................................................................................................... 41<br />

II. Developments in individual <strong>OECD</strong> countries ................................................................................. 47<br />

United States ........................ 47<br />

Japan ..................................... 52<br />

Germany ............................... 57<br />

France ................................... 61<br />

Italy ...................................... 65<br />

United Kingdom ................... <strong>69</strong><br />

Canada .................................. 73<br />

Australia ............................... 77<br />

Austria .................................. 80<br />

Belgium ................................ 83<br />

Czech Republic .................... 86<br />

Denmark ............................... 89<br />

Finland .................................. 92<br />

Greece ................................... 94<br />

Hungary ................................ 96<br />

Iceland .................................. 98<br />

Ireland ................................... 100<br />

Korea .................................... 103<br />

Luxembourg ......................... 105<br />

Mexico .................................. 107<br />

Netherlands ........................... 109<br />

New Zealand ......................... 112<br />

Norway ................................. 115<br />

Poland ................................... 118<br />

Portugal ................................. 121<br />

Slovak Republic .................... 124<br />

Spain ..................................... 126<br />

Sweden .................................. 129<br />

Switzerland ........................... 132<br />

Turkey ................................... 134<br />

III. Developments in selected non-member economies ....................................................................... 137<br />

China ........................................................................................................................................................................ 140<br />

The Russian Federation ............................................................................................................................................ 141<br />

Brazil ........................................................................................................................................................................ 143<br />

IV. Fiscal implications of ageing: projections of age-related spending ...................................... 145<br />

Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 145<br />

The baseline projections ........................................................................................................................................... 147<br />

Sensitivity tests ........................................................................................................................................................ 162<br />

What are the policy options? .................................................................................................................................... 163<br />

V. Challenges for tax policy in <strong>OECD</strong> countries .................................................................................. 1<strong>69</strong><br />

Trends in tax receipts and structure ......................................................................................................................... 170<br />

Taxation of saving and business activity .................................................................................................................. 175<br />

Taxation and the performance of labour and product markets ................................................................................. 178<br />

Tax compliance, enforcement and decentralisation ................................................................................................. 181<br />

VI. Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth: experience in <strong>OECD</strong> countries ... 187<br />

Increased use of economic instruments in environmental policy ............................................................................ 187<br />

Policy implementation: competitiveness and distributional obstacles ..................................................................... 195<br />

Policy implementation: sectoral issues .................................................................................................................... 198<br />

Institutions for co-ordination ................................................................................................................................... 200<br />

Conclusions .............................................................................................................................................................. 205<br />

VII. Productivity and firm dynamics: evidence from microdata .................................................... 209<br />

Introduction and summary ....................................................................................................................................... 209<br />

The role of firm-level data for the analysis of productivity dynamics ..................................................................... 210<br />

Productivity developments: the role of reallocation and within-firm growth .......................................................... 212<br />

Firm dynamics and survival ..................................................................................................................................... 216<br />

Some policy considerations ..................................................................................................................................... 221<br />

© <strong>OECD</strong> 2001

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